Webjay
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Webjay was a web-based playlist service launched in early 2004. Playlists consisted of links to Vorbis, MP3, WMA, RealAudio and/or other audio files on the web. Webjay users could create new playlists by copying from existing playlists, or by web scraping audio file links from external web pages or playlists. The site was created by Lucas Gonze. Yahoo! announced its acquisition of Webjay on January 9, 2006. It closed down the Webjay site at the end of June, 2007. Web scraping portions of Webjay were incorporated into the Yahoo! products Yahoo! Media Player and Easy Listener. The Webjay logo was created by Perri Harper.
Webjay was a web-based playlist service launched in early 2004. Playlists consisted of links to Vorbis, MP3, WMA, RealAudio and/or other audio files on the web. Webjay users could create new playlists by copying from existing playlists, or by web scraping audio file links from external web pages or playlists. The site was created by Lucas Gonze. Yahoo! announced its acquisition of Webjay on January 9, 2006. It closed down the Webjay site at the end of June, 2007. Web scraping portions of Webjay were incorporated into the Yahoo! products Yahoo! Media Player and Easy Listener. The Webjay logo was created by Perri Harper. A March 30, 2004 story in Jon Udell's blog titled "Blogs + playlists = collaborative listening" described the site this way: An April 22, 2004 story in The New York Times described the site this way:
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