The most eagerly anticipated music service this side of the Atlantic Ocean didn’t cross the pond this year. What’s going on? I sat down with Gustav Söderström, Spotify’s vice president of products, over the weekend. Spotify is a music service lets you stream more than 6.5 million tracks for free with advertising. The paid version, about 10 euros a month, gives you access on your phone and without

Salesforce.com announced a new product today called Chatter, which it describes as Facebook and Twitter for enterprises. But during a press and analyst session at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, chief executive Marc Benioff said he doesn’t want you to think of Chatter as a social network. That’s some, uh, creative thinking there — Chatter has employee profiles, status updates and news

(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today.) Twitter’s co-founders Biz Stone and Ev Williams are on-stage for a question-and-answer session. This is paraphrased, but I’ve embedded a video courtesy of Alexa Lee below, if you want to watch the whole segment.) Jessica Livingston: What were your main motivations in starting Twitt

When Facebook bought pioneering social sharing site FriendFeed in August, the fate of the service seemed uncertain. FriendFeed never captured the same kind of traction its competitors did, but it win deep loyalty from its limited user base. Today, Paul Buchheit, who is also the creator of Gmail, said, “FriendFeed isn’t dead. It’s just getting started.” He wrote in FriendFeed today: There was a lot

Lifestreaming service FriendFeed is introducing real-time search, so you can search for anything on the site and see it instantly. Real-time search is also live for advanced search options, including search terms that you can save and track through FriendFeed, and on its blog widget. From the company: Just enter a search query as you always have, and see new results instantly stream in at the top