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Crenk! Spotify Adds Profiles, Sharing and Library Feature: Play Your Mp3 Files Within Spotify and Sync Offline Hand Crafted Hard Drive Encasings Look Classy Order Now: Google Nexus One in the UK on Vodafone Steve Jobs Confirms iPad 3G Will Be in Best Buy Stores on April 30 Facebook Like: See What do you Friends Like with Likebutton.me Spotify Adds Profiles, Sharing and Library Feature: Play Your Mp3 Files Within Spotify and Sync Offline Posted: 27 Apr 2010 12:44 AM PDT Spotify the already world famous music streaming service is launching a major upgrade at 9am GMT today. New features are as follows: Users are able to build their own profile and connect it to their Facebook page or blog. Once they have built their profile they have the ability to add friends via searching under their username. They will be able to publish a widget containing their Spotify profile on the web which will display such things as musical tastes, top artists and favourite tracks. There will also be a new Inbox-style messaging system to suggest to each other tracks or albums, via a drag and drop interface over a friend's name. Music which friends have posted to Facebook will appear in a new Facebook-like newsfeed. Posted playlists will display how many times they've been added by friends. My favourite feature which is the Library feature. In essence it provides the user with the ability to add their iTunes library or Mp3 files on their computer and play them through Spotify. Once they are added to the Spotify Library users can add them to their playlists and even sync the tracks for offline play. Take a look at the video below to see all these features in action (Add me to your friends list on Spotify via this link): Full Feature List: Social Connect to Facebook: you can connect to Facebook inside of Spotify, instantly adding all your Facebook friends who've selected the same feature. Your friends' profiles will appear in a new 'People' sidebar at the right of the screen, with your personal profile at the top. Add usernames: you can also add people by typing their Spotify username, should you know it, into the Spotify search field. For example searching 'spotify:user:username' will bring up their profile (if their profile is published). Publish your Spotify profile to the web: easily publish the link to your Spotify profile on your blog, Facebook page, website or anywhere else on the web and allow others to follow your musical journey. For example here's a link to the official Spotify profile. Inbox: a new 'inbox' folder on Spotify's left sidebar lets you send tracks to friends directly within the platform, simply by dragging and dropping a track to their name in the People sidebar. Alternatively, just right click on the track and select the new 'send to' option. Facebook feed: music your friends have posted on Facebook will be visible on the Spotify 'What's new' page and via a new 'Feed' tab. Popularity count for playlists: all playlists will show how many other Spotify users are currently subscribed to that playlist. By clicking on the number, you can even see the usernames of those who added the playlist. Track playlist changes: see who and when a track was added to a playlist with the new 'Added' and 'User' columns in playlists. Library Local files: missing any music in Spotify? Now you can import a link to all the music files stored on your computer with a simple click of a button. Gracenote: As with any good music media player, if you have missing or incorrect track information you need software to check those files and automatically correct them so that you can better organise and link them to our catalogue. Gracenote does just this. Local file linking: we will check your local files and see if we have that track/artist/album in Spotify. If we do, we'll make the file linkable so you can easily go from that file into an artist or album page. This allows for better sharing of playlists that contain a mix of your own music and Spotify's. Starred: every track and album on Spotify can now be 'starred' – allowing you to tag all your favourites into a special sub-folder. Wireless sync: you can copy your music files to your mobile without connecting a USB cable with our new wireless sync feature. Filter bar: the library has a permanent filter-bar at the top so you can easily type in what you're searching for. In all other lists the filter bar is visible when pressing cmd-f (mac) or ctrl-f (windows). Additional features Mosaic images for playlists: the artwork from the first nine tracks in a playlist will create a cool mosaic image for your playlist New toolbar in headers: Sharing music to Facebook/Twitter and your friends is much simpler. Easy to subscribe or unsubscribe to a playlist as well as view information about how popular a playlist is. A share icon in 'Now playing' artwork: makes sharing what you're currently listening to much easier. Automatic track replacement: Spotify will now automatically try to find a replacement for any track you can't play. So if a friend in another country sends you a playlist with tracks you can't play or a local file, we'll search our catalogue and link to a playable track when possible. A 'link' icon next to the track name represents replaced tracks. 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Order Now: Google Nexus One in the UK on Vodafone Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:11 PM PDT UK customers can now get their hands on the Google Nexus One.  The Nexus One is now available to pre-order today on Vodafone UK. Pricing is at £35 per-month on a 2 year contract, including a bundle of minutes and texts, and the much needed 1GB monthly data allowance. There are a number of other tariffs available too. Customers who pre-order can expect deliveries to go out on April 30th. Previously the Nexus One was available for import directly from Google itself, but this is the carrier-subsidised version, sold through Vodafone, both online and in-store, as is the tradition here in the UK. Nexus One hardware features * Display: 3.7″ AMOLED 480×800 WVGA display * Thinness: 11.5mm; Weight: 130g * Processor/Speed: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 3G QSD8250 chipset, delivering speeds up to 1GHz * Camera: 5 megapixel auto focus with flash and geo tagging * Onboard memory: 512MB Flash, 512MB RAM * Expandable memory: 4GB removable SD Card (expandable to 32GB) * Noise Suppression: Dynamic noise suppression from Audience, Inc. * Ports: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack with four contacts for inline voice and remote control * Battery: Removable 1400 mAh * Personalized laser engraving: Up to 50 characters on the back of the phone * Trackball: Tri-colour notification LED, alerts when new emails, chats, text messages arrive The Google Nexus One will also soon be coming to Vodafone in France (SFR), Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. 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