Random Musings

Techcrunch reports that Yahoo has acquired 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.

I’m also hoping that, because of some of the playlists that I’ve seen on Webjay, there will be a more diverse selection of indie and alternative tracks in Yahoo Music. They already do a pretty good job of this, but I still get repeats somewhat often — both of songs and artists, and not ones that I usually want, like Top 40 stuff.

Yahoo! continues to impress me which their aquisitions. Last year they snatched up the likes of Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org and others. They are probably becoming the tech company that I like to follow the most. While I do still like Gmail for my email, I go to Yahoo! for everything else. That proabably makes sense thought, since Yahoo is more of a portal and Google isn’t. I also am finding it interesting that they have acquired two companies (flickr, del.icio.us) that have really pioneered using tags.