Many months after buying music discovery service iLike, MySpace in addition has gobbled up streaming music site imeem. The news Corp.-owned social media site acquired imeem for an unknown sum. Owen Truck Natta, MySpace's Boss, related the 2 firms "share a typical vision and dedication to further enabling the socialization of content across the Web."

It has been virtually a week since MySpace Music closed its purchase of some of the assets of music service Imeem and redirected imeem.com to music.myspace.com. MySpace took lots of heat for the unexpected shutdown of the Imeem service, especially the API.

Thanks to imeem, in 2009 I had the best looking iPhone app icon on my home screen. It is a cute small cassette tape icon, and it represents all of my playlists and digital mix tapes in the imeem platform.

Imeem was dead-and-gone, and plucked from the ashes by MySpace Music. So why is MySpace getting such a bad rap? Maybe hate is just a crazy beast, one that feasts on the simplest and most plain scapegoat.