{"id":528,"date":"2008-12-03T10:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2017-08-18T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T13:48:07","slug":"farewell-launchcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/farewell-launchcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, LAUNCHcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April of 1999, I left Microsoft, 1 year and 1 day from when I joined. I had the bug to create something new with online radio. Todd Beaupre and I were shoved in a conference room in Santa Monica. Six months later, we introduced the world to LAUNCHcast, the customized and social online radio service.<\/p>\n<p>I learned a hell of a lot from my years at LAUNCH and I never worked harder. LAUNCHcast built up quite a following, especially after we were bought by Yahoo!. <\/p>\n<p>From literally day one of the service, the music industry tried to kill LAUNCHcast. <a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/27\/we-won\/\">I went to court to defend it.<\/a> Well, they finally won by <a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/save-launchcast-again\/\">raising the rates<\/a> services like LAUNCHcast pay to play music to an amount that makes no financial sense. <strong>Every online radio site will now lose money.<\/strong> As a result, Yahoo!, decided to get out of online radio, instead sending users off to CBS Radio. There will no longer be any customized radio. <\/p>\n<p>Nice job, music industry. Instead of collecting money from these services, you&#8217;ve shut down any chance of revenue. Nobody buys CDs anymore and Apple is in control of all your music distribution. Way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell, LAUNCHcast. You introduced me to so much music and many friends along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April of 1999, I left Microsoft, 1 year and 1 day from when I joined. I had the bug to create something new with online radio. Todd Beaupre and I were shoved in a conference room in Santa Monica. Six months later, we introduced the world to LAUNCHcast, the customized and social online radio &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/03\/farewell-launchcast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Farewell, LAUNCHcast&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}