Comments on: Yahoo Acquires WebJay

By: Fortino

Fortino — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:48:25 +0000

Does anyone understand how Yahoo can publicly back this property considering that anyone and everyone can download the mp3s direct from other people’s playlists?

I personally love the idea but would think this would draw some serious unwanted attention in terms of DRM and the RIAA.

By: Random Musings :: Back at it again… :: January :: 2006

Random Musings :: Back at it again… :: January :: 2006 — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:12:16 +0000

[...] Yahoo has aquired Webjay. Yes, I know that I’m late on this but I didn’t have time to write what I wanted to write yesterday.I think that my thought are a little better thought out now as well. I never really saw this coming, but it makes a lot of sense. If any of you use Yahoo! Music to listen to music you know that you can customize what you want to listen to. This is what Webjay is, just in a little different format. It seems that Webjay could easily integrate current users playlists into their own radio stations. I can also easily give Yahoo! users a way to find new music. [...]

By: Acquisition Blog

Acquisition Blog — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:46:00 +0000

Yahoo Acquires WebJay…

TechCrunch had a post, yesterday, about Yahoo acquiring WebJay:
Lucas Gonze’s Webjay has been acquired by Yahoo for an undisclosed amount, according to Kevin Burton and confirmed on the Yahoo Music Blog.
Yahoo seems to be have been gobbling up quite …..

By: Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Webjay Playlist Community - I Just Don’t Get It

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:15:27 +0000

[...] I must have visited the Webjay site about 10 times in the last few months, and every time I have the same reaction: what the heck is it? Anyway, Webjay was back in the news yesterday after being acquired by Yahoo! (Kevin had the scoop), so I’m once again looking at this unfathomable site and scratching my head. [...]

By: Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Webjay Playlist Community - I Just Don’t Get It

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:10:35 +0000

By: Core Dump

Core Dump — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:48:29 +0000

Yahoo acquires WebJay…

According to the Yahoo! Music Blog, Yahoo yesterday acquired the online music playlist publishing company WebJay. I’ve never used this site myself, but it’s an interesting concept. They use an open XML format for sharing playlists called XSPF (pronou…

By: multineedia » Blog Archive » More on Yahoo! getting WebJay

multineedia » Blog Archive » More on Yahoo! getting WebJay — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:22:11 +0000

[...] Yahoo! acquires WebJay Excerpt: TNL: so the rumors are true: Webjay acquired by Yahoo! You should post it on your blog. Lucas Gonze: That’s right. It turns out that when they sign up new people, y! makes them put on this pointy hat that sorts them into “houses”. This makes no sense to me, but it turns out that I am “hufflepuff” TNL: Hehe… stay away from Slitherins Lucas Gonze: They’re over in the DRM group. Related links: Yahoo! Music Welcomes Webjay and Lucas Gonze (Yahoo! Music Blog) Yahoo’s Bi-Coastal Hawaii M+A Adventure (ben barren) Scarcity versus abundance of talent (Jon Udell) Yahoo Acquires WebJay (TechCrunch) Yahoo! Buys Webjay (ClickZ News Blog) Yahoo Acquires Webjay Yahoo Acquires Webjay Playlist Sharing Site (Steve Rubel) Above links via Memeorandum. [...]

By: Marko

Marko — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:44:00 +0000

Looks like http://www.last.fm is a bit further in their develoment…

By: Raanan Avidor

Raanan Avidor — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:00:26 +0000

It is time that Yahoo! Music will work on FireFox and won’t give you stupid errors like:
Error

Sorry, we do not support Netscape on the Windows platform.

Error Code 25 – 0

Grrr…

By: Read/WriteWeb

Read/WriteWeb — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 21:22:40 +0000

Yahoo Acquires Webjay…

Yahoo continue to buy up all the great talent, this time they’ve snagged my blog buddy Lucas Gonze and his innovative music-sharing web app Webjay. As the Yahoo! Music Blog explained: “Webjay is visionary and fantastic, but we are also……