Rupert Murdoch Fouls Up Again


A Rupert Murdoch online property is almost guaranteed -by default- to get things wrong.  The MySpace takeover of Imeem is no exception.  Years ago, a colleague a got me early access to the then standalone desktop app that was Imeem.  While it has made a rather wild evoltion over time, its eventual purchase by MySpace for what I thought was a woefully small amount was a sign of impending irrelevance.

My concerns materialized almost immediately after cementing of the deal; MySpace proceeded almost with all due haste replacing Imeem features with ads.

Not only are users’ playlists offline until MySpace Music manages to reconstruct them all by hand, but imeem songs and playlists appearing elsewhere on the web have been replaced by bright orange ads for Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson and Jay-Z ringtones and MySpace’s music service. Talk about a bait-and-switch.

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