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Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

fredwilson — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:38:02 -0000

Thanks for pointing it out Lucas

I'll post something and blog about it

fred

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

Lucas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:22:28 -0000

Hi Fred,

FYI, the new build of the music player with the improvements I mentioned is now up. See http://developer.yahoo.net/... for details.

thanks.

-Lucas Gonze

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

fredwilson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:45:02 -0000

Good point

it seems like where they are heading

Fred

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

James — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:50:03 -0000

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."

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

fredwilson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:45:02 -0000

Me too

But good people end up in good places

fred

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

bsiscovick — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:40:49 -0000

Speaking of Ian Rogers, I wonder how this move will impact him. I am a big fan of his forward-thinking approach...

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

Matt_ — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:49:09 -0000

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 .

Ian Rogers wrote on his Personal Blog about his thoughts on DRM last year
http://www.fistfulayen.com/...

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 ,

Re: Yahoo! Gets Behind Rhapsody

RacerRick — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:59:53 -0000

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.