Webjay Joins DeadPool, Yahoo Scores Hat Trick For May

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1. Internet Evangelist
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 7:11 pm

   Definitely something is cooking up within Yahoo… time to dig that out.

2. Duncan Riley
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm

   Internet Evangelist
   the obvious question: what will be shut next by Yahoo?

3. ribazon
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 7:30 pm

   Well something like that goes down, something else sprout up… like Skreemr.

4. Where's my fu*king Killerapp?
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm

   Damn it… 2007 sucks.

   There is no flying car, new mike tyson, new soda taste, new sauce, new ice cream, blade runner city, levitating TV screen, and freaking hoverboard. I can’t feel killerapp. I just can’t feel the hype.

   To all founders and dickheads out there. Can you at least invent freaking killerapp for 2007?

   “Killerapp”– You know spreadsheet for apple II, Grand Thief Auto, Super mario brothers, nintendo wii, etc… I’m sick of million dollar VC news. I hate reading million dollar funded companies that never show killerapp.

   Here’s five reasons why you can’t create killerapp.

   1.) Chasing VC money.
   2.) Writing crappy business plan.
   3.) Feeling young…Buy houses, partying, car, commit adultry
   4.) Busy yelling your own employees.
   5.) invent vaporware news. We invented Sealth mode!!! Oh shut up.

   Show it!!! SHOW ME DAMN INNOVATION!!!

5. Ryan
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm

   My guess is that Yahoo is going to use what they got from Webjay to update their music website. They have been testing out a new flash-based video player there, so maybe they want to update the music player to something that competes better with Pandora as well.

6. David Jacobs
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 9:17 pm

   The slow, gradual deconstruction of Yahoo. They used to be so cool, now just a company in search of its mojo. If Google and Apple ever do merge, it’s game over. Prediction: That’s the last thing Jobs will do when he retires from Apple. Since there is nobody else that can run Apple, might as well leave it to the Google guys.

7. rod
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 9:59 pm

   Another waste of a good startup. Its not just Yahoo - throw Webjay on the pile with dodgeball too. I think these 2.0 startups and their “feature” orientation and low selling prices reduce the committment that the acquiring organization feels to their successs.

8. Mike D
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 10:35 pm

   Peanut butter casualty.

9. Wes
   

   May 23rd, 2007 at 10:54 pm

   Isn’t this a question of acquiring some companies and then realizing that they don’t add much value and then the site is closed down. Also waiting to see what else will be shut down.

10. myplaylist.biz
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 12:12 am

    This is a fast moving market and yesterdays innovation is todays scrap. I don’ think that Yahoo see no future here mind, but I guess it’s part of their bigger plan to consolidate they company.

    For those looking to move their playlist’s to another service myplaylist.biz would be happy to host you, and whats more you will be add Flickr pictures to your playlist’s with our embeddable Flash player.

    WebJay were pioneers in the XSPF format and without Lucas Gonze there would have probably been no MyPlayList.biz so a big round of applause is emanating from our offices in the South of France to you Sir.

11. Rajesh Kumar
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 1:55 am

    Looks like the end of the era of mad , half thought out acquisitions. Or is it?

12. Michael Birch
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 4:11 am

    Yahoo should look at acquiring Bebo for three billion dollars at least if it wants a strong presence in the social networking space. This story has a lot of details about me and Bebo.

    Bebo is a social networking website created to enable friends to stay in contact. It has developed into an online community where friends can post pictures, write blogs and send messages to one another, and is similar in format to MySpace. The site has been increasing in popularity.

    Michael Birch founded it. He says, ” I am a Welsh wanker. My energy levels are low. My mommy is a ho. After three hours of work I start huffing and puffing. That is why I went to the internet and formed startups. Sooner or later one will work. The Internet makes entrepreneurs lazy like me. We want lots of money, but do not want to work for it. We have dreams of extreme wealth. Founders of social networking sites have achieved that goal without hard work unlike suckers in the old economy. We have soft lives. That is the privilege of those in the new economy.

    ” All I had to do was lie flat on my back like a bum, start a site and then put in Basic software that allows people to share photos, music etc. That took five hours each week for four months. Everything else fell into place. I don¡¯t have to slog to create great content. The users hand that to Bebo on a silver platter. An online business can generate significant advertising income that, can be earned with minimal input from the business owner like me. This is due to the fact that so many processes can be automated on
    the Internet thus saving the need for an individual to carry out these tasks. I get loose motions when I think about how hard I would have had to work if I had been in the old economy.

    ” I am looking to sell Bebo for over a billion dollars. I can just sit at home and ask for the moon. Wealth will be handed to me on a silver platter. It is amazing how lazy the founders of social networking sites can be and how we genuinely expect to have an online business handed to us on a plate. That is what has happened to Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Youtube. We all only see the possibility of fast money as our sites get millions of users. There is no need to think. Fast money works better than curare to paralyse our minds.

    ” I don¡¯t need to know how to do some of the things involved with running an online business as i got other people to do them even if I have to pay them. Right from 2001 I never knew exactly how the business worked from the ground up. I just sat at home like a bum and formed start ups. I knew that magic would one day happen. I never had to worry about the job market. I never had to worry about working six long hours a day for five days each week. I never had to worry about a career path. I never had to worry about a plan of action for Monday morning. I have a soft life.

    ” I never had to worry about sound business plans. I ignored even basic human-resource and customer-service requirements. Since I am a dotcommer I will have no problem burning through other people¡¯s hard earned wealth when I sell Bebo. I will buy a yacht and a penthouse. I will vacation on the QE2. I am a dotcom moron who is changing the world by offering a social website. I just had to make sure that I got to the market first. The allure of unearned riches was why I became an internet entrepreneur in 2001. The millions of users give Bebo the Midas touch. This has induced a kind of greed hysteria in me. I want at least one billion dollars. If Steve Jobs could just sit on his arse in a garage and make billions of dollars then I deserve no less. It does not matter that I am stupid
    and lazy dotcommer.

    ” I will now make sure that my kids grow up to be pampered and spoiled brats. I will cater to their every whim and fancy. If they do not want to study there is no need for them to do so. After all I have hit the jackpot. If they do go to school then everyday I will give them two thousand pounds as spending money. The other kids will go green with envy as their parents who are trapped working each and every bloody week in the old economy cannot afford to give them even five hundred pounds everyday. I will teach them to poke fun of and laugh at the working class who have to slog each and every month for the rest of their miserable lives for a few 90 grand at old economy firms like The New York Times, Pepsi, Walmart, GM,
    Nike, Coca Cola, Viacom, newspapers, Vodafone. All these firms give their employees menial work which is why the employees are frustrated. That is so funny.

    ” I will worsen my children¡¯s greed, selfishness, and arrogance by being too lenient and allowing my beloved children to do whatever they want. Me and Xochi will constantly dote on our children. If outsiders who have to slog the whole month for a few grand for the rest of their lives have the indecency to tell my children ¡®no¡¯ to an unreasonable request them I will encourage my children to scream, shout, cry, hit those bloody losers and behave inappropriately like infants until they get what they want.

    ” I will spend 40 million pounds buying three luxurious 10 bedroom homes for my children. I will give my beloved children many sweets, the most expensive toys that money can buy and other such things whenever they want them. This will build greed and selfishness in my children. I will teach my children to laugh at the poor countries like Africa which is populated with starving niggers and HIV.

    ” I have many nigger jokes that I will teach my kids this year after I sell Bebo for over a billion dollars to Yahoo!.
    Why do niggers stink? So blind people can hate them too.
    What do you get when a nigger fucks a spic? Someone too lazy to steal.
    What is a nigger in a limo? A thief like Martin Luther King.
    What is a nigger? Proof that skunks fuck monkeys.

    ” I will also teach my kids to make fun of jews, spics. How many jews can you fit in a VolksWagon? All of them if you put them in the ashtray.
    Why do spics drive low-riders? So they can cruise and pick lettuce at the same. One of my favourite pastimes is to make fun of the homeless and unemployed in London and San Francisco by flinging coins in their direction. I will teach my children on whom I dote this as well.”

13. KwangErn Liew
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 5:47 am

    Sad to hear. Really.

14. Michael Birch
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    What is sad to hear?

15. PS3
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 9:53 am

    Hey Michael Birch wannabe,

    Looks like you are a serious hater. Probably because you are bum with nothing to look forward to but your own grave.

    Stupid - this is a site about business and tech. If you got nothing constructive to say except hate, then go ahead drink your haterade and change the url on your browser to another website.

    Stupid!

16. whoopee
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am

    okay so you all bitch about pointless crap being bought and floated and overlapped by other pointless crap…well, here ya go, they’re putting a bullet in something. rejoice, this is the part of the cleanuup you all clamor for

    but wait, there’s more! you also get the pearing knife!

    come on kids, 99.999999999999% of the crap covered here is fringe even for web2 junkies, don’t get too involved spending time populating crap on these sites, they are all just waiting for an economic contraction to turn of the ol o2.

17. christopher
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    As far as I understood it back then, Yahoo mainly wanted to hire Gonze because of the XSPF playlist format he invented. That format is now implemented in the Yahoo! Music Engine, for example… I don’t think they every had great plans for Webjay itself, as a service.

18. landmammal
    

    May 24th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    Dear Where’s my fu*king Killerapp,

    You are my hero. That is all.

19. Internet Evangelist
    

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:39 pm

    @ Duncan Riley… the shutting down of yahoo auctions could be a indication of something to do with ebay… either a better partnership or a buyout, There seems to eb rumours flying around already.

20. TekWek
    

    May 29th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

    I just started using this player called MXPLAY (really sweet btw) which is allowing a very easy import of all your Webjay tunes…..see their blog post here http://blog.mxplay.com/mxplay/.....rs_lo.html

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