---
title: "Yahoo Acquires Webjay"
date: 2006-01-09
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Yahoo Acquires Webjay

Yahoo continues to buy up all the great talent, this time they’ve snagged my blog buddy [Lucas Gonze](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172332/http://gonze.com/) and his innovative music-sharing web app [Webjay](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172332/http://www.webjay.com/). As the [Yahoo! Music Blog explained](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172332/http://ymusicblog.com/blog/?p=20) \[[via TechCrunch](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172332/http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/yahoo-acquires-webjay/)\]:

> “Webjay is visionary and fantastic, but we are also keenly interested in [Lucas the individual](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172332/http://www.gonze.com/). He’s contributed a lot of great work to standards around music on the Internet, and has always pushed forward a refreshing perspective of openness and progress without turning a blind eye to infringement or the rights of copyright holders (likely because he’s a musician himself). His recent creation of [the meme “Lightnet”](https://web.archive.org/web/20100707172332/http://gonze.com/weblog/story/lightnet) is a culmination of years of working under this philosophy.”

On a personal note, I’ve been following Lucas’ progress on Webjay ever since he started it. He was one of the first readers of my blog too. So a hearty congrats to Lucas – well done mate!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_acquires.php))*