Edit, it’s official! From www.meedio.com, April 18, 2006:
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.
Yahoo announced their Yahoo! GO – TV at CES in Las Vegas in January. I have been following some rumors about Yahoo buying Meedio. This could be interesting for the media center comunity. Yahoo buying such a powerful desktop application for presenting media on your TV will strengthen their position as a media distributor. And it actually makes sense. Why build it from scratch if you can buy a very good solution?
If you look at the screenshot from this page at Yahoo you’ll see that there is a “Flickr”-choice on the page. Cool. Seems like we can expect a tight integration into Flickr. Now when will Yahoo buy YouTube? Or when will we see a proper plugin for YouTube in Windows Media Center Edition?
Meedio is extremely powerful, fast and configurable. They also have some nice possibilities for advanced home control through HouseBot. If Yahoo buys it and throw some money on it you will have serious competition for some of the other platforms. The web is turning into a very good platform for delivering rich media like music and video. With podcasting and download services like TVTonic, Democracy and Akimbo you can start to deliver some high quality video as well.
Follow the rumors at the Meedio forum here, here and here. And they’re discussing over at HTPC News as well.
(Thanks, Trond A)
eirikso 
This was announced in january but later removed from the webpage, though never from Yahoo’s cache 🙂
Should we say:
“Yahoodeeo – coming soon!!“
instead of
“Yahoodeeo – coming soon?“
Cache is a fine thing!
http://www.meedio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=218952#218952
I asked Pablo if Meedio was free and here is the answer.. I think people has the right to know and I hope Meedio isnt fooling any people into buying it anymore since _IT IS_ FREE!
Me myself is feeling quite dissapointed since I recently bought Meedio Pro...
Pablo wrote:
"
Yes, please don't keep mentioning it in the forum. When you bought it, it wasn't free.
Meedio LLC is doing strange things these days… in a not so positive way I must say!
http://www.meedio.com/
It is official…
Yahoo did not buy Housebot, so it is still unclear what happens with it.
Looks like the original author of Housebot bought it back from Meedio, so I suppose it is in good hands, never used it myself.