We’re going to try something new today on ASE, but I don’t want to ruin the surprise other than to say it might include sounds, but without the moving pictures that normally accompany them in such technological “witchcraft” as video embeds. If you’ve already figured out the surprise, don’t tell anybody. To get to the point, imeem, sort of similar to Israeli music search alt Jogli, is quite an advanced social search-based music database.

What are they trying to do? Picture a spider with a lair. Not a poisonous one, a friendly one, like Charlotte, you being Wilbur. Basically, imeem weaves its web through its embeds that are centralized in its lair, being its homepage. In three words and three additional parenthetical words, it’s a hub for musicians (or music enthusiasts). Once you have an account, you can upload your material, and embed it throughout the web to market yourself and be one of the web weavers. You can also check to see which songs are being most listened to from your playlist and which ones aren’t, and even which ones have been embedded by other people to hone your market accordingly, assuming you’re an aspiring musician using imeem to popularize your unique sound.

Reputably huge, imeem is touted as “the world’s largest social media community,” reaching over 100 million people each month through their spiderlike entanglement of embeds across the web. Sounds scary? Only if you’re arachnophobic. If so, I deeply and insincerely apologize for the past two paragraphs of horror.

On imeem, people can stream unlimited music and videos for free, upload their own stuff, or find popular music, and friends with similar tastes. People can easily share the playlists they find and create and the can also buy downloads from either iTunes or Amazon.

Their newest features? imeem created the Discover page to give people personalized recommendations of all manner of media, based on what they and the people they are connected to in the imeem community are listening to and watching. Recommendations are based on the scanning of the social web entrenching the site to see what’s most popular in any given category.

As far as search is concerned, and believe me, that’s what we concern, there is the browse page, where people can filter by media type, genre, and popularity.

And now for the surprise. We will now connect imeem inextricably with ASE by being one of its embed partners. Listen to this song about the sun. It’s educational. Learn about nuclear fusion…with imeem! Today!

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