We are very excited to announce that FoxyTunes has been acquired by Yahoo!

So, what does this mean for you, our loyal user? Basically, it means that if you liked what we’ve done with FoxyTunes in the past, you’ll love what we’ll now be able to achieve being a part of Yahoo!. Read on for more details, and I hope you’ll be as excited as we are!
Why did Yahoo! acquire FoxyTunes?
We’ve been talking to the Yahoo! Music team about deepening our cooperation, and we quickly discovered that not only do they understand and appreciate what we’ve done with FoxyTunes, but they also share our vision of Universality and Openness, and are really prepared to take this vision forward and implement it on the largest scale possible! So, it was clear for everyone that an acquisition made sense, because it would allow us to really join forces and work together on our common vision.

What’s going to happen to FoxyTunes?
The FoxyTunes team will become a part of Yahoo! Music and will continue working on FoxyTunes, adding many great things to our products - you’ll see support for additional media players, integration with many additional music sites and services and much more! Our product roadmap and wishlist are quite long and very exciting, and being a part of Yahoo! will really allow us to make many of the things we’ve been planning a reality. Most importantly, Yahoo! are as committed as we are to preserving the Open spirit of FoxyTunes and embracing all the great music products and services out there.

Will this affect user privacy?
As always, your privacy is very important to us and we’ll never do anything to jeopardize it. You can see our privacy policy here.

What does this mean for FoxyTunes users and partners?
If you’re a FoxyTunes user you’ll still get the same unobtrusive but at the same time rich and universal experience you’ve come to expect from FoxyTunes. If you’re our partner, either existing or potential, rest assured that our philosophy of being open hasn’t changed - if you have a media player, music site or service, or in general if your stuff is of interest to music lovers - we’d be happy to work together! We’re planning to release more info on all the various ways of integrating and working with FoxyTunes in the near future.

We’d like to thank everyone who helped and supported us over the years - our passionate users, great partners, investors and friends - we really couldn’t make it without you. A special thanks goes to Yossi Vardi for his amazing support and for believing in us from the very beginning.

Also, check out Yahoo!’s announcement on Yahoo! Music Blog.

We are very excited to be joining the Yahoo! family and can’t wait to show you all the cool things we’re working on.

Stay Tuned!

Live Earth is a huge music event that is going to take place on Saturday July 7, 2007. It is a series of concerts happening all over the planet with the goal of raising worldwide awareness of the dangers of Global Warming.

More than 150 of the world’s most popular artists and bands are going to perform at Live Earth and 2 billion people are going to follow it on the Internet, TV, radio and mobile.

We are very excited about this upcoming event and its extremely important cause, so we decided to make our humble contribution and create a special page on FoxyTunes Planet dedicated to Live Earth. On this page you can learn more about the event and its artists - you can even watch many of their most popular videos.

So, check out the FoxyTunes Live Earth page and visit the LiveEarth.org site to learn what you can do to help battle the climate crisis and save our Planet.

Good news, following my previous post, we fixed a few issues and now FoxyTunes can again show what’s playing in your Pandora

You can get the latest FoxyTunes version from here.

Klim Levene, a young Canadian filmmaker has created two cool Firefox ads for the wonderful Firefox Flicks contest.

Klim wrote me to say that he loves FoxyTunes, and his first ad called “Pandora’s Box” features FoxyTunes as one of the benefits of using Firefox. The 3D part of this ad was done by Masha Levene.

The second clip is called “Ahhh, Nerts!”. It makes me laugh each time I see it
You can check out more of Klim’s work on his short films page.

Thanks, Klim!

FoxyTunes was reviewed by Michael Methvin as part of About.com “Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without” series and was featured on their front page.

Thanks Michael!

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