This was abundantly evident when muxtape launched and the tech literati wet their pants over it even though imeem was already doing everything that muxtape did, Moreover imeem had already dealt with the record labels that would eventually be cited as a reason for muxtape’s downfall.

When imeem launched they were a client application which implemented a social network on top of a p2p filesharing system. They made big noises about distributed database technology and other fancy technologies. Clearly they were aiming at the ‘educated’ end of the market, but never took off. Somewhere along the line their current audience emerged.