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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?"
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...
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Really. Does the name not mean anything??? :)
Business charges $0 for its product, runs out of cash due to lack of viable revenue. Details at 11.
Unless you're Google and can sell tons of ads, "free" is not going to survive.
I hate listening to the radio, so for awhile I tended to miss out on most new stuff. A couple of times, my absolute favorite bands released a cd without me even knowing because I wasn't paying attention.
Pandora fixed everything I hate about normal radio. Now I enter in all my stuff, and still get recommendations on new music. If I don't like a new song, I just skip it. Pandora has introduced me to many new bands which I love.
And yes, I have a massive cd collection, all ripped to mp3 and carried on my iPhone, so streaming does make sense for people with a large collection.
Name...That...Autocomplete!
Hipster fight!
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.
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.
For someone who has both Jesus and John Lennon in his signature, you sure seem cynical.
Pretty good is actually pretty bad.