From Spotify today, on discovering the almost tautological “people who use the internet more tend to buy more using the internet”:

We know that Spotify’s users who connect to Facebook listen to more music on a weekly basis. They listen to a wider variety of music—in fact we have more than 400 million playlists created in Spotify now. Because these users are more social, they’re more engaged. Because they’re more engaged, they’re more than twice as likely to pay for music.

Divided, my first iPhone application, is now available on the App Store. I’d love it if you’d buy a copy for you and all your friends!

Lovely complicated-bill splitting helpfulness: available now!

Should you get the error:

The problem is that the python-mysql egg cannot find the MySQL tools for your install, mysql_config being the particular one it’s after. The quickest solution is to add the path /usr/local/mysql/bin/ to your ~/.bash_profile’s PATH variable definition:

Remember to re-source your ~/.bash_profile to update your current shell’s PATH:

Then installing the egg should work fine. Or, at least, you should be past this issue.

Read and digest the following, from ReadWriteWeb:

While the focus of today’s Facebook announcements was the new Timeline profile, the Read, Watch, Listen media sharing apps have generated a lot of interest too. These so-called “social apps” haven’t been widely launched yet, but you can get a sense of what they will do by adding a couple of brand new newspaper social apps to your Facebook profile: The Guardian’s app and one from Washington Post.

Over the past few months I’ve been building an iPhone application. It’s called Divided, and it’s a more intelligent bill splitting application than the ones I could already find.

In my own words:

Divided is the bill splitting application that doesn’t assume everybody ate the same thing. Tailor the split for your party’s needs, avoid bill issues and go home happy.

Developed to scratch my own itch, I began to think Divided was useful enough to put on the app store. So I spent a couple of months’ worth of spare time polishing the application and bugging my friends to try it out and tell me what they liked and what sucked. I think it’s come out well from this process, with many improvements and generally more praise than suck (at least in later betas).