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Shazam for the iPhone, most prominently known for its music identification service, just underwent a nice upgrade thanks to OS 3.0 that includes three new features. First up, and arguably the most useful, Shazam now lets you send your tunes to Twitter so you can share recently-discovered music to all your loyal followers. Blip.fm has a pretty strong foothold in this kind of thing, so we’ll see how Shazam manages to compete. Second, Shazam has added what they call postcards, which are basically collections of songs that you’ve found that you think a particular friend would enjoy. Lastly, and most strangely, is new geolocoation support, so you can see where you were when you tagged a particular song. This feature just confuses me. Don’t get me wrong, I love location-based services and am all for getting people to use GPS for something other than driving directions, but I really couldn’t imagine a circumstance in which you would need to recall and make that connection between music and place. Neither “where was I when I heard that song?” or “what was playing when I was there?” seem like questions people ask on a regular basis. Maybe I’m crazy – is there some kind of geolocation/music cross-section that I’m missing, here? You can grab the new version of Shazam for free from the iTunes App Store.
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
