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May 25, 2007

iLike: By Far the Most Popular Facebook Application

Michael Arrington

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Facebook’s new Developer Platform has been live for nearly a day, and data is coming in on which third party applications are the most appealing to Facebook users. The top application, by far, is music service iLike. They currently have just under 40,000 Facebook users, more than the rest of the top ten applications combined.

The application was added by 10,000 users within the first ten hours of the service being live, and 10,000 more in the following three hours. It seems to be increasing by about 100/minute at this point. Once installed, users can search for and add their favorite music and concert information to their profile.

Competitor MOG is also popular, coming in currently as the fifth most popular Facebook application and just over 3,000 users.

Causes On Facebook, the application that we covered yesterday, is in the top twenty apps and has just over 1,000 users.

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  1. kenny

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

    Where is Last.fm?

  2. Aaron

    May 25th, 2007 at 9:15 pm

    Mr. Popular with 71 new messages :)

  3. Pat

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    I really want last.fm

    iLike installs a hideous sidebar that you can’t get rid of… [”hiding” just makes it smaller…]

  4. Pat

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pm

    Oh and to that, it isn’t even a sidebar; it’s a drawer, which is so outdated…

  5. Don Wilson

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    I would be excited about digg’s app but it’s clearly not working and hasn’t all day.

  6. Any screw ball news?

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    Damn… No Flying car news. This place is full of dinosaur apes.

    Any f*ck up startup news?
    Any scandal news?
    Any watergate startup news?
    Any startup burgary news?
    Any fried chicken news?
    Any news about man who chop off his own penis for being billionaire?

    What 2007 tech innovation?

  7. Andrew

    May 25th, 2007 at 10:47 pm

    At this rate we’ll see 100 facebook related articles in the next week. Maybe put them all together into 1 article, and release them once a week.

  8. Soso Sazesh

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:05 pm

    It’s not a bad feature, but the songs are not complete. They begin nearly half way through. Anyway, Facebook is actually interesting now that they have all of these applications to keep users on the site.

  9. J. Smith

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:12 pm

    Great, now I have to deal with annoying music on facebook now too?

  10. james

    May 25th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

    last.fm’s website says coming soon. not soon enough.

  11. Daryn Haynes

    May 26th, 2007 at 12:18 am

    A unofficial last.fm application has been released by a Facebook user. I have more about in my blog post here: http://mediacritiq.blogspot.co.....rt-of.html

  12. weblockr

    May 26th, 2007 at 1:54 am

    Micheal why did facebook video disappear?

  13. alterion

    May 26th, 2007 at 2:29 am

    this site is becoming as bad as engadget with the internal links- very annoying, i expected to go to the facebook application when i clicked the links.

  14. Michael Arrington

    May 26th, 2007 at 2:47 am

    Daryn, Awesome. Great find.

  15. moataz

    May 26th, 2007 at 6:05 am

    It’s the most popular but look at the reviews for it and they’re mostly negative. Interesting to see how Web 2.0 is opening to the masses and it’s getting a lot of negative reviews.

  16. Scott

    May 26th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    So far I am extremely disappointed with these apps. I’ve tried three so far, none of them worked. With MOD you have to download a separate application to automatically update your song in your profile. I don’t need yet another app running in the background taking up memory. Digg couldn’t connect my accounts. And now trips is timing out when it tries to set up my profile. They really should do a lot more testing before releasing these apps. Facebook doesn’t have the technical crowd with the patience for internet apps that screw up, and people will dismiss this before it even begins.

  17. shervin

    May 26th, 2007 at 7:57 am

    Michael, you have to do the Music Challenge. I am now dubbed a music expert with over 2,400 points, 70% correct rate and 6.5 second response rate. Beat that. I challenge thee.

  18. billyd

    May 26th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    I’ve been an iLike user for a while, and I think their Facebook Application is a perfect example of a good service with an incredibly lame presence on the Facebook Platform. iLike has lots of potential for good Facebook integration, but they failed miserably.

    The main reason I use iLike is to track my listening habits in iTunes and publish them for others to see, however the iLike Facebook app doesn’t even have an option to link to existing iLike accounts, so I can’t display any of this data (now listening, most played, etc.) on my Facebook page. This also means I can’t import my points for the iLike game from my existing account. The main thing their Facebook Application seems to let people do (other than the iLike Challenge game) is display upcoming concerts of bands they have listed in their music section of Facebook… and even this doesn’t work right (for example, it displayed one band that I didn’t have listed anywhere in my profile). Why would my friends want to see upcoming concert dates for bands that I like (and bands that I don’t like, it seems)?

    @Pat — I’m not sure what OS you’re using, but I know in OS X you can hide the iLike Sidebar completely (so that the little part doesn’t stick out) by going to View->Hide iLike Sidebar. I would guess you can do something similar in Windows, too.

  19. Ron Diggity

    May 26th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    I really enjoyed the desktop application called fbquick. It gives you pop-up notifications on your desktop.

  20. shervin

    May 27th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    To the naysayers. fOS is here to stay. The Facebook Operating System will help change a lot of things. Get used to it. The services are that unavailable are those that are hugely popular and growing virally. Remember this is in the first few days of the service being live. The most popular FB apps providers are rushing to buy up servers to keep up with demand. What no was expecting was the actual usage levels of the apps. Being within the FB environment bestows some of their magical usage levels on the apps that are done well. This is only the beginning.

  21. Lisa McMillan

    May 27th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

    There’s another last.fm app from Facebook user Dominik Hofmann that I actually like better than the one above. Does pretty much the same thing, but it seems to make more sense to my non-geek friends on facebook. It’s called Recently Played Tracks

    I’m still looking forward to the actual last.fm app. iLike just isn’t the same. I think the only reason it is so popular is because it’s the only one on there. Last.fm might have really missed a chance to pick up a huge pile of users here.

  22. qwertydude

    May 29th, 2007 at 10:13 am

    I’m just catching up after this weekend so forgive me if I’ve missed some subtle points here…but if anyone can answer these questions I’d appreciate it..I finally signed up for facebook and tried installling iLike.

    The Facebook ilike app makes references to keeping track of live shows as well as songs. From where is it grabbing these two sets of data?

    Does iLike on Facebook somehow allow users to schedule reminders about upcoming shows (I think Upcoming does this)??

    What does myspace have that is comparable besides Eventful and http://Gruvr.com and the Platial widgets?

    Won’t this force those myspace morons to finally open up and stop keeping potential innovators quaking in fear?

    Can myspace even legally prevent the above sites from reading myspace profile data - as long as the myspace profile owner indicates approval?

  23. Sonny

    May 29th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    Everyone knows that http://www.yourhottestfriend.com is the superior facebook application!

  24. Gillian

    June 5th, 2007 at 6:16 pm

    I have like, 1,200 points on that game. It rocks.

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