Yahoo has made another Web 2.0-ish acquisition: it has bought out online music playlisting community site Webjay and hired its creator Lucas Gonze….this will become part of Yahoo’s music service/division.
Webjay is a site for easy creation and playback of playlists from the Web. Users can create playlists using music/audio/video from around the Web, share them with others, include them on their Web sites, browse other users playlists, play the playlists in any media player, or cannibalize the playlists to create new ones, as the post above descirbes.
For more info on Webjay, read this Wired News story: “Music Gurus Scout Out Free Tunes”
Updated: Interview with Gonze on the acquisition: “From the audio and video perspective, the meaning of playlists is that they’re the container format for the internet. CDs are over; mixtapes are only an analogy; Radio, television, movie theaters — not internet. So Webjay and my other playlist work is what Yahoo is about with this acquisition”.
Related: Yahoo Music’s Dave Goldberg: The playlist is the killer app in music.
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