Comments on: iLike: By Far the Most Popular Facebook Application

By: FreshNetworks Blog » Blog Archive » Spotify and the Clones of Dr.Funkenstein

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:06:03 +0000

[...] a fan of iLike (which got even better after the facebook masses were introduced to it back in May 2007) and have also used LastFM and iTunes to find new music. I find the online communityaspects of [...]

By: How to earn money on Facebook ? « Zelie Berger’s Weblog

How to earn money on Facebook ? « Zelie Berger’s Weblog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:02:30 +0000

[...] I’ll give one example that illustrates this point. ILike was an Internet music company which created an application, the iLike tool, that has become very successful. It permits members to post their favourite songs’ clips, to buy tickets for a concert, and to see if their friends planned to attend it too. With this tool, ILike got much more traffic than with its own website. In this article from TechCrunch, the author says that it’s by far the most popular application… [...]

By: Facebook Platform, One Year Later

Facebook Platform, One Year Later — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:11:38 +0000

[...] the platform’s launch, iLike (then the leading 3rd party app) had accumulated 400,000 users - nearly 5% of all Facebook users had it installed. Initial results were promising enough that a number of [...]

By: Will rockstar journalist sell direct? | dna13 - the power of presence

Will rockstar journalist sell direct? | dna13 - the power of presence — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:34:29 +0000

[...] like minded and aligned by personal interest, political views or a common rant. Applications like iLike appear to be a pretty inexpensive way to build brand within Facebook and [...]

By: B2B Facebook: Limited Profile « PR, New Media, GTD - Lines from Lee

B2B Facebook: Limited Profile « PR, New Media, GTD - Lines from Lee — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:48:52 +0000

[...] be used to block these professional associates from access to information from applications like iLike, Twitter or Mac [...]

By: CScout Trend Consultancy - China Trend Blog » Chinese Internet Usage Snapshot

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:22:09 +0000

[...] Chinese users toward the end of last year, growing at 100,000 users a day. This equates to the meteoric growth iLike experienced after launching on [...]

By: tech blog » Chinese Internet Usage Rivals U.S.

tech blog » Chinese Internet Usage Rivals U.S. — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:33 +0000

[...] users toward the end of last year, growing at 100,000 users a day. That’s similar to the meteoric growth iLike experienced after launching on [...]

By: Education Revolution - Educational Tastemakers

Education Revolution - Educational Tastemakers — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:10:27 +0000

[...] the music biz right now and you’ll get the best glimpse of what I think is possible. See how people are adopting the iLike Facebook app and think about what that means. See how services like last.fm and the Hype Machine operate and how [...]

By: Facebook F8: Fact and Fiction

Facebook F8: Fact and Fiction — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:30:36 +0000

[...] How viral are applications? F8 applications have been experiencing some serious growth, like 300K per day kind of growth. But part of me wonders if the growth of these applications is just water finding its level. There [...]

By: Gillian

Gillian — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:16:39 +0000

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

By: Sonny

Sonny — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:47:40 +0000

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

By: qwertydude

qwertydude — Tue, 29 May 2007 17:13:13 +0000

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?

By: MySpace v. Facebook: “It’s Not A Decision. It’s an IQ Test” by Just a random blog !

Mon, 28 May 2007 10:21:35 +0000

[...] third party application, iLike, has nearly 400,000 users just a couple of days after launching and 10x what they had just last Friday. That means nearly 5% of Facebook’s users have now included it on their [...]

By: Lisa McMillan

Lisa McMillan — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:04:49 +0000

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.

By: shervin

shervin — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:15:50 +0000

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.

By: Ron Diggity

Ron Diggity — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:44:43 +0000

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

By: billyd

billyd — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:19:07 +0000

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.

By: shervin

shervin — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:57:48 +0000

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.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 26 May 2007 14:15:40 +0000

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.

By: moataz

moataz — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:05:35 +0000

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.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:47:08 +0000

Daryn, Awesome. Great find.

By: alterion

alterion — Sat, 26 May 2007 09:29:31 +0000

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.

By: weblockr

weblockr — Sat, 26 May 2007 08:54:50 +0000

Micheal why did facebook video disappear?

By: Daryn Haynes

Daryn Haynes — Sat, 26 May 2007 07:18:12 +0000

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

By: james

james — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:13:24 +0000

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