{"id":153,"date":"2006-01-11T22:18:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T03:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/01\/11\/discovering-webjay-and-zoeradio\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T22:18:37","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T03:18:37","slug":"discovering-webjay-and-zoeradio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/11\/discovering-webjay-and-zoeradio\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Webjay and Zoeradio"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s funny how things come together sometimes. I’ve been following the chat lately about Yahoo’s purchase<\/a> of Webjay, which is kind the del.icio.us of music playlists, but I wasn’t paying that much attention because I’d never heard of Webjay.com until that point (hey, I can’t know about everything — I have a day job). And then I came across a mention of this great podcast\/radio show<\/a> thing by Zoe, a 15-year-old girl from Santa Monica.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was the name that caught my eye — my youngest daughter’s name happens to be Zoe. Anyway, I went and checked it out, and it led to me to Webjay, which is where Zoe’s shows are archived<\/a> so you can stream and\/or download them. I listened to a couple and thought they were great — a fantastic mix of stuff by bands like Fallout Boy, Weezer<\/a> and The Strokes, as well as people I’d never heard of like Brendan Benson and One Block Radius. A really great selection.<\/p>\n

According to a note from Zoe’s father<\/a>, his daughter made him some mix tapes, and they found their way to a friend who had a pirate radio show, and then SPIN<\/a> magazine heard about it (although the link to the story he mentions doesn’t go anywhere) and then it kind of took off. Great story — and Webjay turns out to be a great service. Another smart buy by Yahoo, making it a trifecta with del.icio.us and Flickr.com.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b><\/p>\n

I did a little digging, and it’s probably not a surprise that Zoe’s into music — it appears her dad is Ian Rogers<\/a>, who used to work with the Beastie Boys (where he was one of the first to post the band’s Mp3 files online<\/a> in 1998), then wound up at Nullsoft (creators of Winamp before AOL bought it) and then at a company called Mediacode, which was bought by Yahoo and became the guts of Yahoo’s Music Engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s funny how things come together sometimes. I’ve been following the chat lately about Yahoo’s purchase of Webjay, which is kind the del.icio.us of music playlists, but I wasn’t paying that much attention because I’d never heard of Webjay.com until that point (hey, I can’t know about everything — I have a day job). And … <\/p>\n

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