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Dec 11, 20070

imeem community get the Universal catalogue

imeem, the social network for music lovers, has announced a partnership with Universal Music group (UMG) that will deliver on-demand, interactive streaming of Universal’s extensive digital music and video catalogue, to the imeem community. With this announcement, imeem is the first social networking company to offer full-length, streaming access to the entire music and video catalogs of all four major music companies on an advertising-supported basis.

Beginning today, imeem’s audience of over 19 million users can listen to and express themselves with music and video from UMG’s digital catalog, which includes many of the world’s top-selling artists such as Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, Black Eyed Peas, The Pussycat Dolls, Gwen Stefani, The Killers, Snow Patrol, Maroon 5 and Nelly, among many others.

www.imeem.com

Dec 8, 20070

meebo partners with VideoEgg Inc

meebo, a website for instant messaging (IM), has partnered with VideoEgg Inc., the video ad network for online communities, to give meebo Platform application developers the ability to monetize their applications. The partnership brings VideoEgg’s Eggnetwork Advertising Platform (EAP) to developers building synchronous and multiuser applications for the meebo Platform. Since the October 30th Platform launch, more than 300 developers have registered applications for the meebo Platform and are helping make meebo the live interaction destination on the Web.

The launch of the meebo Platform is creating additional live interactions amongst meebo users and their IM buddies with the addition of rich applications that include Webcam, voice calling, and Flash games. Now with VideoEgg, the meebo Platform gives third-party developers a hassle-free monetization of their applications. meebo and VideoEgg will run unobtrusive, user-friendly and engaging ads while applications run. meebo will share ad click through revenue with its third-party application developers. Alternatively, meebo offers third-party developers the ability to opt out of the revenue-sharing arrangement and run their own ads on their application.

www.meebo.com www.videoegg.com