38 posts and columns on Imeem
Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell’s Mixed Media Labs Board
To avoid a potential conflict of interest between two fighting companies he advises, the famed venture capitalist will leave his seat on one of the boards.Exclusive: LinkedIn Has Bought Contact Management Start-Up Connected
LinkedIn has acquired Connected, a small contact management start-up that unifies and dynamically updates users’ connections on email, social networks, calendars and phones.Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify in the Big Digital Music Giveaway
A few months ago, free music looked dead. Now it’s up and at ’em. Why now? Ask Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook next Thursday.Beyond Name Dropping and Fancy Degrees: Crunching Data to Make Living Resumés
A new site called Gitalytics credentials programmers by crunching the numbers to evaluate the significane of their open source contributions as recorded on the popular project hosting site Github.SoundTracking Gives Music Its Own Check-In App (Video)
SoundTracking, the recently launched iPhone app, is a social version of the ambient song recognition technology many are familiar with from apps like Shazam and SoundHound.Video: Picplz's Dalton Caldwell Says It's All About the Money
Mixed Media Labs CEO Dalton Caldwell doesn’t want to brag about the features of his photo-sharing app Picplz. He wants to talk about how it will (eventually) be monetized.Voices
After Imeem Ends On Bum Note, Founder Back With New Venture
Investors often talk about the importance of a founder having previous start-up experience. Dalton Caldwell’s last start-up certainly was an experience. He founded online music service Imeem Inc. in his apartment and watched it grow to 95 employees and raise more than $25 million in venture capital. Then he watched it fall apart, selling to MySpace Inc. for a reported $1 million.News Byte
No, It's Not Instagram: Photo-Sharing App Picplz Raises $5 Million
Mixed Media Labs, the parent company behind photo-sharing app Picplz, has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Up until now Picplz, which works on both Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android platforms, has been best known as the new project from Dalton Caldwell, who ran music service Imeem until it collapsed a year ago. Next question: Who is investing in rival photo-sharing app Instagram? (Ahem. Besides Andreeseen’s firm, which invested in that start-up’s seed round.)News Byte