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Yahoo! acquires WebJay

January 9, 2006

A few min­utes ago, I learned that Yahoo! acquired Web­Jay, a site that allows for cat­e­go­riza­tion, edit­ing, lis­ten­ing, and shar­ing of playlists online (In a way, it can eas­ily be com­pared to del.icio.us for mul­ti­me­dia.) Web­Jay was cre­ated in early 2004 as a way to cre­ate the inter­net equiv­a­lent of mix tapes. Lucas Gonze, the cre­ator of Web­Jay agreed […]

At WeMedia 2005

October 5, 2005

I’m attend­ing the WeMe­dia con­fer­ence today and will be live-blogging in this entry. Watch the site for con­stant updates as I will keep adding to this entry. It seems there are two clear camps here: the new media adopters and the tra­di­tional crowd. They can eas­ily be iden­ti­fied based on whether they have lap­tops in front of […]

The changing musical landscape

February 24, 2004

Two entries popped up in my RSS reader today that made me think about the ever-changing musi­cal land­scape: On the shifted librar­ian, Jenny talks about chang­ing behav­iors when it comes to music. A 9-year-old think­ing of music as some­thing you burn, not a piece of plas­tic, rep­re­sents one of the biggest chal­lenges to date to the music […]

Apple, XML, and the Music Store

May 5, 2003

Thanks to Tim Bray, we now know that there is an XML inter­face to the Apple Music Store. In the search for more infor­ma­tion to under­stand what was pro­vided to us and what they were get­ting from users buy­ing infor­ma­tion, I checked inside the actual track XML. In this case, I picked an XML sam­ple file from […]