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Here's how Imeem and MySpace Music stack up against each other. Both have rights to millions of songs from the four major music labels - EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner Music. Both allow users to stream tunes for free on the Web and create playlists that can be shared with friends. MySpace Music has the tidier and more efficient interface, but its playlists cap out at 100 songs (or just 10 tracks, if users post them to their MySpace profile page). Imeem's playlists, meanwhile, are unlimited in length...
Though both sites have rights to the same music, you won't necessarily find the same tunes on each. MySpace gets most of its major-label music directly from record companies; Imeem gets those same songs from members who upload tracks from their personal archives. "We're really crowd-sourcing our music," says Imeem founder Dalton Caldwell, which is arguably a more democratic way to make the most popular tunes available first. Before songs can be shared on Imeem, the site checks the digital fingerprint of each track to make sure it has the legal right to distribute...
Still, Imeem escaped Napster's fate and went on to make online music history in December 2007, when it became the first site to stream free music legally from all four major labels. (Indie music abounds on the site as well...
...economic crisis looms, threatening the prospects of thousands of future financiers across campus, we arts majors must confess to feeling a little, well, smug. For the past several years we’ve girded our loins for a rocky post-collegiate existence. We’ve read Hemingway’s memoirs and prepared to go without meals for days at a time. We’ve joined Facebook groups proclaiming “I Picked a Major I Like, and One Day I Will Probably Be Living in a Box.” We’ve built...
...many of us, this was far from breaking news. We attend college in an urban environment on the outskirts of a major city. Minor crime comes with the territory—and we grow used to hearing about the occasional iPod theft or late night assault. I, for one, didn’t pay much attention to that first warning on September...