Went to the Madrid colo on Wednesday to shut down Whisher’s servers. As some of you may know, Wifi.com, backed by Rob Monster, acquired Whisher in mid January. I have joined Wifi.com as CTO, and continue to improve upon Whisher’s offerings – the main aim now is to make social interaction possible through the wifi.com website.

It was a sad moment – they had been churning for almost three years, and have been the most reliable I have ever worked with. Four Dell boxes, one for the Whisher authentication server, another for Oracle (by -far- the most stable database server I have worked with, almost zero downtime during three years), and two for RADIUS and our Apache web server. The Whisher website and blog will continue to live on a shared hosting for the time being. Wifi.com is hosted on new servers in Seattle.

When I have some time I’ll write the Whisher story, but for now, it’s time to move on. The rest of the Whisher team will go on to pursue new exciting opportunities, as it’s usually said – in this case, with reason, they are all in other exciting startups – wish you the best!

It looks like tricks will no longer fool the Spotify client – it was until recently possible to create an account over a tunnel to a UK IP address and set your country to UK, in order to access a lot of the blocked content that people in certain countries are not allowed to listen to, based on the whims of the copyright holders.

I guess I’ll have to cancel my paid subscription – it was a tit-for-tat as far as I was concerned, willing to pay but only if they allowed a loophole. Bye Spotify, we hardly knew ya!