Yahoo! Snatches Up Meedio
By Alexander Grundner |
April 17th, 2006
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We’ve been a fan of Meedio Digital Home software products for quite some time, so it’s not too surprising that Yahoo! has taken notice and lured Meedio’s talented team of developers and purchased all of the company’s intellectual property. If you remember back in January, Yahoo! announced Yahoo! Go TV, a media center like Windows application that gives PC users a ten foot TV interface and access to a variety of useful features like: PVR functionality, Flickr photo access, personalized infotainment services, Internet video search, and others. To date, though, it has yet to go public. Enter the Meedio crew to help put the finishing touches (and possibly add some home automation capabilities). Below is an excerpt from Meedio’s front page announcement.
Important News About Meedio
Today is a big day for the team here at Meedio; we have sold most of our technology to Yahoo!
David Brott, Jeff (beergeek), Kenny (fasttech), Pedro (flea0) and I are joining Yahoo!’s Digital Home team. We’ve had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Yahoo! in the past few months and we love the way they are developing the best, most user-friendly services for the Digital Home.
As I said before, behind Meedio LLC the company, is Meedio the idea and all of us want to see it succeed. The sad truth is that we had recently hit a brick wall and did not have the resources to make it flourish. But, Yahoo! has a great team that is just as dedicated and passionate as we are in this space and, of course, they carry the content and might of an early Internet pioneer. Together, the combination can be nothing but a winner. We are thrilled at the opportunity to put the Meedio idea together with the Yahoo! experience and bring it to millions of people all around the world!
To be perfectly honest with you, before I wrote the first line of Meedio code, I envisioned a day when it could be used as the “new browser”; to bring all the content goodness that Yahoo! can provide to the 10 foot world. It is really exciting seeing it actually happen.
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