MySpace Buys and Then Takes Down Imeem

Conchobair was one of several users letting us know that Myspace has snapped up free music streaming site imeem. Visitors to the imeem site are being sent to a MySpace redirect page, which states that they are "working to migrate your imeem playlist to MySpace Music." Currently there is no way to access imeem music or playlists or to make use of imeem apps on Android or iPhone. The AP reports that the deal was done for less than $1M — not bad for 16M subscribers — noting that the music startup was running out of cash. PC Mag notes: "Last week it was announced that Apple had purchased Lala, and now MySpace snaps up imeem. Are Pandora and Rhapsody next?"

Comments

Myspace is fast losing relevance

[mcrbids]

The combination of crappy layouts, shoddy design, counter-intuitive interface, and juvenile audience are all working together to render Myspace irrelevant. I just checked my myspace page, apparently for the first time since May of this year.

Nothing's changed...

Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance

[DreamsAreOkToo]

Slashdot should employ the use of a new filter. If you are posting anonymously, your post should be rejected if it contains any racial slurs or other obvious flaming.

Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot should employ the use of a new filter. If you are posting anonymously, your post should be rejected if it contains any racial slurs or other obvious flaming.

|\|1gg3rs.

Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance

[sznupi]

Accidentally banning "13375p3ak" is a plus in my book.

Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance

[obarthelemy]

The horrible thing is that, like IM and file formats, there's a strong network effect. There's a strong incentive for everyone to use the same site, pretty much regardless of specs, functionnality, reliability...

Hopefully someone will come up with some kind of Social Web standard and filters, that will let us import/export content and contacts between sites, maybe set up front-ends on several sites but point them back to our own site...

Re:Myspace is fast losing relevance

[rolfwind]

Sounds like the geocities of this decade.

Sweet

[HisOmniscience]

This site was great for trying out artists after a Pandora suggestion. Guess I'll have to go back to torrents for trying out new artists.

Ever heard of the "lameness filter"?

[Anonymous Coward]

They've tried. It's called the lameness filter. Basically, it ends up banning people from posting example code while the trolls have their 100% alphanumeric ASCII art of goatse.

So no, the filtering doesn't work very well.

Re:who streams music?

[NoPantsJim]

I'm not sure I understand, what made you decide to turn this thread into some absurd superiority battle over who has more music? My initial post was trying to explain to someone else why streaming still makes sense in this day and age, and you turned it into a dick measuring contest. Go troll someone else.

Re:Leave Pandora Alone!

[zullnero]

Or else they are, and just don't care about the reference enough to bother replying. Doesn't seem like the kinda place for heated discussions about Greek myth.

Re:Yet another free business going bust

[drsquare]

Maybe $200 a month isn't a lot when you're actually paying for content. You know, like licencing all that music. Internet ad revenue is pitiful.