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Social media network imeem has announced it has acquired media distributor Snocap. imeem is a social networking service that enables users to interact with each other and express themselves with music, photos, and video, and discover new artists and new friends by way of shared interests and media. Snocap is best known for enabling artists to sell their music on any Web site—most significantly on social network MySpace—while retaining control of their copyrights and licensing. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Universal Music Group has entered a deal with social networking site Imeem to enable free, on-demand streaming of music and videos from Universal Music artists. Although technical details of the streaming technology were not released, one thing was made abundantly clear: the music and video streams will be ad-supported.

The move makes Imeem the first social networking site to offer music streaming from “The Big Four” major music labels (Warner Music Group, EMI, Sony BMG, and now Universal). The service enables users to search for on-demand music and video and create custom playlists for friends and family both on Imeem and on third-party Internet services.