Spotify introduce artist radio and recommended features

Spotify has ramped up its music service by bolting on a new recommended artists feature and artist radio - unleashing all the data it has gathered from user listening habits to create a recommendation engine. The recommendation features take Spotify into the territory of rivals Last.fm and Pandora Radio (an American-only service) - which emphasise…

Whistle and your phone will respond: the Where is My Phone App

A delightful iPhone app from Little Worlds makes your iPhone to respond to your whistle. Train the app "Where is my Phone" to recognise your whistle then programme in a sound that you want it to do in response - a dog's bark, a croak, a laugh or various bodily noises that I'm sure you…

She Wears Your Tee: Fasion Model cuts out middle man with new site

Musicians have been using the internet to cut out the middle man for a while through fan-funded records and suchlike - and it looks like fashion models might be starting to do the same thing. A site called She Wears Your Tee does just that and was started by Tanaya, a fashion model who lives…

Hello Kitty meets Frankenstein: say hello to anatomical kitty

Just when you thought Hello Kitty toys couldn't get weirder, along comes a Hello Kitty toy with a see-through stomach and a collection of visible internal organs. Designed by Dr Romanelli in collaboration with Saniro and Medicom, biology gets a Hello Kitty touch too. Instead of looking like they sort urine from blood or perform…

Estate agents make an iPhone app

An estate agency has become the first British company to make a search-for-a-property iPhone app. The app from Hamptons Estate Agents gives you access to their whole catalogue of properties in the UK (mainly London and South-East) and abroad. You may not be able to afford to the houses, but you can certainly afford the app…

Sony Ericsson's new Greenheart phone – the Aspen, an eco-Blackberry

Sony Ericsson have added a business phone to their line up of eco-friendly handsets. The multi-tasking Windows Aspen joins the Elm and the Hazel in the Sony Ericsson Greenheart range. The phone's general features reflect the business niche that Sony Ericsson are gearing their Aspen handset towards: the key point being the Windows Mobile 6.5…

Site of the week: Checklists.com – a collection of useful and weird lists

Site of the week goes to Checklists.com. As a list-a-holic, a collection of lists arranged in a list format gives me great pleasure. The site is a collection of pre-made check lists for individual situations. Obviously a lot of lists are very specific to you: for example pick up Andrew will only have significance if…

It's not information overload, it's filter failure

A bleak struggle with my inbox and the general abundance of articles like this about information overload, reminded me of this talk from web theorist and author of Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky. Shirky tells us it's not the amount of information that drives us crazy, it's the failure of filters to sort it properly…