When it comes to music fans, iLike faces Myspace
ILike, by far the most popular music application on Facebook, has started overtaking MySpace in sheer number of fans registered for some top music artists.
The young Seattle company is being coy on specifics, but consider this: Artists like Nickelback, Modest Mouse and Kayne West now have many more fans/friends on iLike than they do on the giant network MySpace. Name an artist, and there’s almost a 50-50 chance they’ll be more popular on iLike.
While iLike… Continue Reading
Q&A with iLike’s Ali Partovi, on Facebook
A few days after social network site Facebook opened its platform to third-party sites, iLike, a popular music sharing site has scored 723,936 users on Facebook. It is by far the most popular application. We interviewed iLike chief executive, Ali Partovi. He compares Facebook’s platform to the web itself.
VB: Tell me about your experiences with Platform so far. You’ve been working on putting iLike on Facebook for several months now. Yet on the integration since Friday… Continue Reading
Facebook users vote for iLike, but what happened to Audio?
(Editor’s note: We promised a 24-hour moratorium on Facebook coverage. That is now over.)
Here’s the early winner of Facebook’s open embrace of third-party applications, announced two days ago: iLike, a hot music service that lets you discover music that matches your tastes with others.
iLike’s users on Facebook have reached around 180,000 early this evening, from a mere 1,000 on Friday morning — that’s orders of magnitude larger than any other of the new Facebook applications… Continue Reading
iLike makes move on music, video and now mobile media: Buys Fotodunk
[Update: The Fotodunk purchase price was $120,000. Our previous guess of between $1 and $5 million stemmed from a confidential discussion that turns out to have been misinformed. Apologies]
You’ve been hearing a lot about iLike lately, and they have more coming.
It’s a fresh a way of seeing a list of the music your friends are listening to, and to get recommendations on independent artists based on your tastes (we wrote about it here).
VentureBeat has been… Continue Reading