Archives for the "media types" tag
Yahoo! acquires WebJay
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 [...]
Tags: Google, HTML, Yahoo, digital media, media types
In Analysis
At WeMedia 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 [...]
Tags: Google, Media, Microsoft, United States, Yahoo, eBay, media types
In Business, Media, Technology
The changing musical landscape
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 [...]
Tags: digital media, media types
In Analysis
Apple, XML, and the Music Store
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 [...]
Tags: Apple, XML, media types
In Technology
