imeem
Sign in to saveThe 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.
Key facts
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Inception
- 2003
- Dissolved
- 2009
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online community
- Founded by
- Dalton Caldwell
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Official website
- anywhere.fm
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17 sectionsContents
- 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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