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.
So I’ve been surfing around, trying to find some things of interest to bide my time since I have nothing else to do I what do I discover; why it’s a website with a listing of current public beta and alpha sites. There can be some interesting things in here. I really like Streampad, which I am currently trying to listen to. The interenet on this campus sucks, it keeps on having to buffer so all I get is a note or two and then silence while it buffers. That get’s old real quick. Anyway, from the site.
Streampad is your destination for music on the web. You can listen to your own library streamed from home, live concerts*, and other great music from around the web… Inside you’ll find mashups with del.icio.us, google maps, amazon, and the internet archive.
So far I’ve listened to parts of a Jack Johnson and Ben Kweller concert and the quality, as far as I can tell, it quite good. I’m looking foward to downloading the client and seeing what it can really do.
I also signed up with Tagworld and have been looking at that as well. Needless to say, I’m not very happy with it. I don’t like the choices for the layout, the ads that are REALLY obtrusive, or the fact that I have to side scroll on almost all of the pages I visit. Combine this with the fact that this is really just another MySpace or Xanga, except that it supports Flickr and tags; well it’s just not really needed.
Well that\’s all for now. I’ve got more I could write, but that would lead to a really long post that I don’t feel like writing right now. Some other time I guess.
