During a brainstorm for a European based start-up aiming at challenging the iTunes Music Store and the likes, I found iPernity.com — bêta, of course — via Go2Web20’s cool directory of startups.

iPernity.com is using the exact same UI paradigms and functionalities than Flickr’s. It extends Flickr’s concepts to any kind of files, not only photos, but also videos (that can be leeched from other sites like YouTube), sound files, and any kind of file you can take from your desktop, via a nice embedded desktop browser, or from the web.

iPernity allows to manage documents (tag them, group them in albums, geo-tag them, etc.). This is for the Flickr-like aspect.

Then there is the community aspect: registered users get a “mySpace” (sic) — which I obviously won’t describe here — with several level of access depending on the visitor’s status (owner, friend, family, family & friends, visitor).

Registered users can make friends, publish their blog, post music on their mySpace, etc, etc.

In conclusion: iPernity is the ultimate global mashup of Flickr and MySpace; with this efficient and neat UI popularized by Flickr. I really liked it, althought I understand some people may hate this interface (diversity is as important in the websphere than in the biosphere).