The E-mail That Initiated Spotify's Integration Into Facebook
Forbes ran a great story on Sean Parker and Daniel Ek and in that story they also showed the e-mail that initiated the integration of Spotify into Facebook. In the e-mail, Parker goes on in great extent to talk about the different attributes of Spotify. The story also outlines the fact how hard Parker wanted to be part of Spotify, be it an investor, advisor or just help out.
The e-mail initiated a set of discussions that later lead to Daniel Ek sitting down with Sean Parker and Peter Thiel. They were to meet for 45 minutes, but the meeting went on for 5 hours. The rest is history as we know it. On September 22nd (the same day as Arctic15 for that matter), Facebook introduced its partnership with not only Spotify, but also Rdio and MOG. Below is the original e-mail Sean Parker sent to Daniel Ek and Shakil Khan.
Dopplr adds automated trip updates
Dopplr has finally added three key features that have kept it short of TripIt in terms of ease of use. With their newest update, Matt Jones writes, that you are now able to add trips through Twitter, SMS and e-mail.
Twitter and SMS automations work alike, you need to send a private message to the Dopplr bot and it will add your trips to your account (after you've activated your account to support these of course). Lastly, the email update works just as Tripit's trip updater - you send the itinerary/confirmation received from your airline to Dopplr and they will update the trips accordingly to your account. This has been a major shortcoming in terms of adding new trips and will surely speed things up in the future.
Another question to ask is; Will Dopplr be looking forwards to integrating itself closer to Tripit and possibly looking for an early sell-off?
