Yahoo lucy--charlie-brown-football-ed me on this one.
Long time Music Match customer. Yahoo buys em, does nothing with it for 2 years then out of no where (crapily) migrates all the customers to Yahoo music.
Now they shut down yahoo music. Screwed twice.
Matt_
· 1 year ago
I think this has more to do with Yahoo not wanting to deal with the hassle of DRM anymore .
Ian Rogers Yahoo Musics General Manager has been a very outspoken critic of DRM in the past and DRM has also eaten into Yahoo Music's operational costs with DRM being the cause of most of Yahoo Music's customer service issues .
Also the acquisition of Foxytunes demonstrates that Yahoo doesn't wast to develop a stand alone media player anymore and is more interested in web based services ,
bsiscovick
· 1 year ago
Speaking of Ian Rogers, I wonder how this move will impact him. I am a big fan of his forward-thinking approach...
fredwilson
· 1 year ago
Me too
But good people end up in good places
fred
James
· 1 year ago
Just wondering. Why would you propose Yahoo buying Hype Machine- when later in the day you admit that innovation has been less than stellar for start-ups post Yahoo acquisition:
"I suspect that many of Yahoo!'s best services will languish under Microsoft's ownership and that users will leave. It's happening already under Yahoo!'s ownership to services like Flickr and Delicious and MyBlogLog."
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Long time Music Match customer. Yahoo buys em, does nothing with it for 2 years then out of no where (crapily) migrates all the customers to Yahoo music.
Now they shut down yahoo music. Screwed twice.
Ian Rogers Yahoo Musics General Manager has been a very outspoken critic of DRM in the past and DRM has also eaten into Yahoo Music's operational costs with DRM being the cause of most of Yahoo Music's customer service issues .
Ian Rogers wrote on his Personal Blog about his thoughts on DRM last year
http://www.fistfulayen.com/blog/?p=127
Also the acquisition of Foxytunes demonstrates that Yahoo doesn't wast to develop a stand alone media player anymore and is more interested in web based services ,
But good people end up in good places
fred
"I suspect that many of Yahoo!'s best services will languish under Microsoft's ownership and that users will leave. It's happening already under Yahoo!'s ownership to services like Flickr and Delicious and MyBlogLog."
it seems like where they are heading
Fred
FYI, the new build of the music player with the improvements I mentioned is now up. See http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/0... for details.
thanks.
-Lucas Gonze
I'll post something and blog about it
fred