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Also known as imeem.com

The online service imeem was a social media website where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos. It operated from 2003 until 2009 when it was shut down after being acquired by MySpace.

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Website.name
imeem
Website.logo
imeem picture 2007.png
Website.commercial
Mixed
Website.type
Viral content sharing, social network service
Website.registration
free, required to play many full-length songs
Website.owner
News Corp.
Website.author
Community
Website.current_status
Defunct

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Wikidata facts

Official website
anywhere.fm
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inception
2003-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
2009-00-00
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17 sections
Contents
  • Business model
  • Products
  • imeem.com
  • imeem Mobile
  • imeem VIP
  • History
  • Early history: 2003{{En dash}}2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
  • Closure
  • Technology
  • Copyright infringement lawsuit
  • Meems (groups)
  • References
  • External links

The online service imeem was a social media website where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos. It operated from 2003 until 2009 when it was shut down after being acquired by MySpace.

The company was founded in 2003 by Dalton Caldwell (formerly of VA Linux) and Jan Jannink (formerly of Napster), and many of its core engineering team came from the original Napster file-sharing service. The company takes its name from "meme", a term coined by biologist Richard Dawkins to describe the ideas and cultural phenomena that spread as if they had a life of their own.

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