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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Start Your Own Jukebox on imeem.com

What’s on your playlist?

That is the tagline of imeem.com, a social network revolving around media such as music, videos and photos. What I like a lot about imeem.com is I can search for all those songs I had listened to when I was growing up as a teenager. I still remember renting those videos of “Top of the Pops” during the heyday of UK bands. There are a lot of songs imeem.com members have uploaded to their profile page.

When you register as a member, you get your very own profile page. You can upload songs, videos and photos. The interface is intuitive and very appealing, especially the photo playlist. I just lo…oove the “View album as a photo playlist”. It’s like the Mac-style media player (although I don’t use Mac, heh! heh!). On the “Transition Menu”, you can choose whether to fade, drop or swap your photos one after another. Very nice! You can also adjust your slideshow timer.

The search box on the top right corner is where you search for the stuff you like i.e. music, photos, videos, blogs, groups, people, even “everything”. For example, I can search for Tears for Fears’ Shout. The results displayed includes anything from the song I am looking for, to Tears for Fears’ songs, videos and the like, available at the site. It also displayed all media related to that genre of music, and even singers from that era. I find this very useful whether I want to search for everything by the group or to look for everything during that era.

In fact, I am in the midst of compiling my very own “Awesome Eighties” hits playlist. I grew up during the 80’s and have many fond memories for those teenage years. Each song brings back a different set of memories. I particular love the fact that I can find songs I neither knew the title nor the name of the singer. How? Since imeem.com search function returns related singers and songs from the same era, it makes it very easy for me to look out for the songs. It is divine pleasure listening to those songs again even though I didn’t know the title or singer! imeem.com helps me do it… easily! Rah!