The title might be a tad over-dramatic, but having played with Spotify for about 10 minutes, I’m convinced it’s the hands-down best damn streaming music player I’ve ever seen - and thanks to TechCrunch and their post How To Try Spotify Immediately, No Matter Where You Live. They have a great explanation - but this little hack might not last long, so I’m just going to give you the steps to do it, and you can read about it after downloading.

Here are the steps:

Invite yourself from anywhere:
1) go to http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
2) enter the following URL: https://www.spotify.com/en/get-started/
3) Create your account, for UK postcode - check http://www.postcodesearch.org.uk/

Now get downloading before they close this thing up. Thank me later.

If you need a little more info, just think iTunes - but all streaming. You can make playlists and drag streams into the playlist for later. Do you really need to know more?

From Sacrilicious Marketing:

Ever want to be famous? We all secretly harbor delusions of gandeur, but luckily, the Internet has provided even the least likely celebrity candidate the ability to blog, film, podcast, tweet, blip, digg their way to pseudo-stardom. So, if you want to be famous, take a page from one of the following totally ordinary people that are legends in your living room because of the big bad “inter-web.”

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From TechRadar:

When it comes to the Internet, we’re creatures of habit – Google for search, Hotmail for email, Twitter to stay in touch and maybe the BBC’s website for news.

This means that we use only a handful of favourite sites, leaving the rest of the Internet unvisited. Let’s put that right. By the time you’ve finished reading, we promise that your list of bookmarked sites will have ballooned and you’ll be getting more from your surfing.

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From The Wojo Group:

You could write a book on website optimization, in fact people already have. But, here’s 10 really easy steps to getting your sites optimized for speed. Hopefully this will get you started and you’ll want to investigate front end optimization a little further.

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From NowPublic:

In the real world, location can be everything.  On the Internet, a website’s virtual location, its URL, can be just as important.

Most URLs give you exactly what you think they will.  Money.com takes you to CNN’s Money page.  If you’re looking for a car, go to Cars.com.  Movies.com gives you all the information that you would could want that has to do with Hollywood.

Then there are the ones that suck — those complete wastes of excellent domain names that take you to a blank page (or even worse, a dreaded advertising page).  Here are some URLs that SHOULD be something.  They just aren’t.

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From the Site:

I’ve been publishing Web Digest For Marketers since April 14th, 1995. It was the very first email newsletter about Internet marketing.

My staff and I have seen tectonic changes that will only accelerate. On the other hand, we’ve witnessed many “next big things” fizzle and die, never to be heard from again.

The 12 trends below represent what I think you need to keep an eye on in the foreseeable future. Enjoy.

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