I have covered MeeMix a few times on my blog already as I am a big fan of this site. MeeMix is a personalized internet radio community which aims at identifying individual taste and taste prediction in music using its own behavioral-based algorithm and additional methodologies.  MeeMix takes into account your behavior on the site (for example, which songs you added to your favorites) and uses it to predict what music you might like to listen to in the future.

I met this week with Gilad Shlang, the CEO of MeeMix, who gave me the scoop on a few new features that will soon be launched on the site….so get ready, this is exciting stuff!

I will start with a few new features which have already been uploaded on the site:

Mee Feeds – Mee Feeds allow you to see all your friends activity on the site: What stations or songs they added to their favorites, what Meeps they added (I will later explain what a Meep is), who befriended whom, who updated their mood, etc. Mood on MeeMix is just like your status update on Facebook. You can now update your mood letting your friends know exactly what you’re up to.

Gallery Enhancement – Now when you click on any photo, it’s enlarged in the center of the page plus you can also add tags to any of your photos which will later lead to easier searches on the site.

Meeps – Meeps are your comments. You can Meep about any artist, album, or song and let everyone know exactly what you think of it. This feature is part of the Player so when you listen to a song you can at the same time check out the related Meeps – who Meeped what and add your own Meep. You can also reply to someone else’s Meep. There are three kinds of sorting options for Meeps: Interesting Meeps – Meeps with the most comments, Online Meeps – Meeps written by people who are online now, and Friends Meeps – Meeps written by your friends.

Favorites upgrade: Now adding songs to your favorites is easier than ever. When you click favorites (the heart icon) you will be presented with the album song list where you can check or uncheck any song. These songs will appear more than others in your station.

And now for the new stuff….

The Talk – This new feature will soon appear on Mee People home and in each station page. Each station in MeeMix has a “Station Home” where members can chat about the station with the Mee’J. The Talk will show on which station people are most actively talking (chatting). The implication of this feature is that there will be live conversations at all times on each station and each of these stations will inevitably become its own mini social network. This will also imply that the members of each station will have more involvement in what happens on each station and which songs, albums are played. For instance, groups will be able to take votes on what songs they want to listen to or which artists should be added to the station.

Artist or Track Block – Like a station but annoyed by a certain artist? Soon you will be able to block any artist or song from a music station you like.

Mee Journey – This new feature will appear on all members profiles.  It will list all their thoughts, Meeps that they posted or responded to, station ratings they gave, photo uploads, new stations they opened, their moods, and more. Basically it will display their whole journey on MeeMix.

Enhanced right panel – If you’ve used MeeMix already you probably noticed that on the right panel appears all the information regarding you – your avatar, friends list, etc. Very soon this right panel will get a major facelift. You will be able to “browse” the person’s thoughts, favorites, stations, and also send him/her a personal message right from there.

All these new features are scheduled to be launched by the end of this month.

Another major scoop which I will tell you about is MeeMix’s upcoming Integration with Twitter. This integration will allow any MeeMix member to update his friends on what song or station he’s listening to, what album he added to his favorites, and more.

I believe that the new MeeMix site is much more user friendly and pleasing to the eye. Many of MeeMix’s features which were unnoticeable until now are much more emphasized on the pages. MeeMix is taking musical taste and interaction to a whole new level. Each station will now become its own mini universe where members can interact with one another and share their thoughts and feelings.

There is one feature which I haven’t yet told you about. I am saving this one for a special post, so stay tuned

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