{"id":265,"date":"2006-04-22T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/yahoo-buys-meedio\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T18:29:17","slug":"yahoo-buys-meedio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/yahoo-buys-meedio\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Buys Meedio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte vml 1]><v :shapetype id=\"_x0000_t75\" coordsize=\"21600,21600\"  o:spt=\"75\" o:preferrelative=\"t\" path=\"m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe\" filled=\"f\"  stroked=\"f\"> <v :stroke joinstyle=\"miter\" \/> <\/v><v :formulas> <v :f eqn=\"if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"sum @0 1 0\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"sum 0 0 @1\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"prod @2 1 2\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelWidth\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"prod @3 21600 pixelHeight\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"sum @0 0 1\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"prod @6 1 2\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"prod @7 21600 pixelWidth\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"sum @8 21600 0\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"prod @7 21600 pixelHeight\" \/> <v :f eqn=\"sum @10 21600 0\" \/> <\/v> <v :path o:extrusionok=\"f\" gradientshapeok=\"t\" o:connecttype=\"rect\" \/> <o :lock v:ext=\"edit\" aspectratio=\"t\" \/> <v :shape id=\"_x0000_s1026\" type=\"#_x0000_t75\" alt=\"yahootv.jpg\"  style=\"position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:98.25pt;height:88.5pt;  z-index:1;mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;  mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;  mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;  mso-position-vertical-relative:line\" mce_style=\"position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:98.25pt;height:88.5pt;  z-index:1;mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;  mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;  mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;  mso-position-vertical-relative:line\" o:allowoverlap=\"f\"> <v :imagedata xsrc=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\DOCUME~1\\SCOTTF~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\msohtml1\\01\\clip_image001.jpg\" mce_src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\\DOCUME~1\\SCOTTF~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\msohtml1\\01\\clip_image001.jpg\"    o:title=\"yahootv\" \/> <w :wrap type=\"square\" \/> <\/v>< ![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/yahootv.jpg\" alt=\"yahootv.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\" align=\"left\" \/><!--[endif]-->This past Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zatznotfunny.com\/2006-04\/yahoo-to-offer-pc-dvr-services-buys-meedio\/\">Yahoo! announced<\/a> their purchase of technology from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meedio.com\">Meedio<\/a> who make software for Entertainment Center PC&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve been eyeing Meedio for a while now and was planning on using their flagship &#8220;Meedio Essentials&#8221; application for an HTPC that I&#8217;m planning on building this summer. You may also remember some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/jons-htpc\/\">older posts<\/a> about Jon&#8217;s HTPC. This is the software he uses to power his beast of a entertainment center pc (I&#8217;m hoping he&#8217;ll speak up in the comments).<\/p>\n<p>This purchase could go a few different ways depending on what Yahoo! does with it. They didn&#8217;t flat out buy the company, they only bought the technology. Does this mean they&#8217;re going to integrate it into something they&#8217;re already working on? Yahoo Go has had a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/go.connect.yahoo.com\/go\/tv\">Personalize Your TV<\/a>&#8221; demo site up for a little while now. I can only assume that this is built with the technology they acquired from Meedio. There are still quite a few unanswered questions though. The great thing about Meedio is that is was very customizable. Hopefully Yahoo, trying to keep users inside the Yahoo network, doesn&#8217;t cripple that customization which has made Meedio a great piece of software. When Yahoo purchased Konfabulator several months ago they pretty much left it as it was and just made it available for free. With Konfabulator though, it&#8217;s more along the lines of Yahoo&#8217;s primary business &#8211; the web. Meedio doesn&#8217;t really fit into that category.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo has been moving more towards TV in the past year though. They <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tivo.com\/cms_static\/press_64.html\">announced a partnership<\/a> with Tivo back in November allowing you to record shows on your Tivo from Yahoo TV. I wonder how this new Meedio relationship will fit into that. I think Yahoo definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/ecommercetimes.com\/story\/48038.html\">wants to get into the TV video market<\/a>, I just wonder how they&#8217;re going to mesh all this stuff together, or if they&#8217;ve even thought that far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I think the best case scenario with this is Yahoo not changing much with Meedio as it stands now (maybe just throw the little &#8220;Y!&#8221; icon on there somewhere) and giving it away for free a la Konfabulator, or Google&#8217;s Picasa purchase. That way when I get to building an entertainment PC this summer there&#8217;s one piece that I won&#8217;t be paying for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Tuesday, Yahoo! announced their purchase of technology from Meedio who make software for Entertainment Center PC&#8217;s. I&#8217;ve been eyeing Meedio for a while now and was planning on using their flagship &#8220;Meedio Essentials&#8221; application for an HTPC that I&#8217;m planning on building this summer. You may also remember some older posts about Jon&#8217;s&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/yahoo-buys-meedio\/\" title=\"Read Yahoo! 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