Social Network for Music - imeem
In my constant search for new apps and sites, I stumbled upon imeem. Imeem is a social network centered on providing music for online listeners. I would say it’s extremely geared towards community building.
Imeem has some pretty cool features such as:
- customizable dashboard fully equipped with web2.0 drag and drop widgets
- extremely user friendly personalizable user profile page
- ability to add and remove dashboard widgets
- media tracker
- ability to add song and music player on to any site
- and basic SN features such as message board, friend tracker, friend finder, and customizable user profiles
Couple of features I believe would really up their game:
- user profile urls to include profiler full name (everyone loves a personalized link!)
- ability to add nicknames
- ability to post a status update
- eventually have the ability to sync up with my ping.fm account. I’m all about centralized messaging.
Imeem seems like a hybrid of facebook/myspace/lastfm. I love the ability to create personalized profiles, accounts and super easy to use profile customizability. I’m also definitely a big fan of the media tracking and “play related” function. The music selection is questionable (I’ll give it a couple of days). I see a bright future for imeem, I just hope it doesnt run into the same issues as Pandora and Lastfm.
Tags: Application, music, social network
August 29th, 2008 at 10:42 am
imeem is a great site, but you missed the best feature.
on imeem you can upload music and share it, if you want to share something that’s not on the site you can upload it and add it to your page. imeem does some filtering thing to figure out whether the track is legal or not (e.g. no Beatles tracks are allowed).
So underneath all the social stuff imeem is youtube for music.
August 31st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Annie you are absolutely correct. One of imeem’s most favorable features is their user generated content which includes uploading user’s music.
it’s amazing how easily these types of SNs can make an artist’s music viral.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
i started using imeem last year…love this site. i’m toggling between imeem and last.fm (recommended no other than misschicgeek :D)
September 10th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Yeah Imeem is quite fine! It’s part of the websites which contributed to the revolution in the musical world. However, my favourite one in that context is http://www.deezer.com/en which brought real free and legal music-on-demand! It’s quite great, and it has quite a huge catalogue right now! Check it out.