iPhone Spotify and now Flickr!

Flickr has officially come to iPhone.

iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr and now Flickr have now returned the favor with the new iPhone Flickr app.
The app enables you to easily share the photos you’ve captured with iPhone’s camera, geo-tag them, and add them to sets.

This has come after Spotify's iPhone app coming under mixed reviews. The hype surrounding the release of the Spotify app for Premium users was big to say the least. However with some usability problems arising it has come under some criticism.

Spotify edges towards U.S launch

Spotify is moving closer towards launching itself in the worlds largest music market, America. A Techcrunch has said that all big four record companies currently own shares in Spotify. Spotify now has a big enough backing to satify copyright holders and open the New York ad sales office it is planning.
With this much financial support founder Daniel Ek believes that a release at the end of this year is on the cards.

According to investors the music streaming service is now worth an estimated $250 million.

Daniel Ek had previously said that he would not sell Spotify for $200 million and with it being valued at $250 million before release in America his stance seems to have been a very smart one.

Spotify to add video content soon

Spotify has taken a major step to adding video to its music content database as it launches a video advertising service. The music streaming company has teamed up with Sony Pictures to launch a video player which will give space on the website dedicated to video advertising.

The Flash player will allow users to play, pause, rewind and adjust volume during adverts. A seperate audio message announces the movie release date and drives users to click on a banner to view the trailer.

For £9.99 a month users can stream music for free with one advert played every half an hour. A free version is also available with more ads played during playlists.

The Swedish founder Daniel Ek believes that eventually movies and television shows could be added in the future.

- Spotify is a peer-to-peer music streaming service that allows instant listening to specific tracks with almost no buffering delay. Spotify is funded by advertisments and paid subscriptions -