Today, iLike released a social playlist app that lets you create a music playlsit and embed it on any Website. Then through Friend Connect, anyone can sign in and change or add to the playlist. I’ve embedded one below seeded with five songs that I’ve called TechCrunch House Party. Go ahead and add to it, but only good songs, please. Or create your own. Update: Oops, I created a regular playlist that can’t be edited by others by mistake. Turns out your site needs to be set up with Google Friend Connect for the social playlist to work. I guess you can suggest songs for me to add in comments.
Friend Connect is Google/OpenSocial’s answer to data portability. Just last December, it opened to all Websites. That means that anyone with a Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID username and password can sign in.
iLike, for its part, offers full song streaming through a partnership with Rhapsody (which limits non-subscribers to 25 free tracks per month). The Rhapsody-imposed limit could eventually become a barrier to consumer adoption. The other problem with the app is that it is missing is the ability to vote up or down songs. There is no mechanism to ensure the playlist gets better as more people touch it rather than get worse. If iLike added that, it could start generating some amazing crowd-DJed playlists. As it stands, I fear most of these playlists will not get better the more people interact with them, which is how the value of all social apps should be measured.
WOW – I may have to start using iLike again.
Now I’m thinking if I contribute to Michael’s TechCrunch House party mix, I need an invite! Better yet.. I’m thinking that iLike should sponsor a TechCrunch House party where the music comes from the playlist.
I’ll look out for my invite
“I contribute to Michael’s TechCrunch House party mix”
He just said it was his?
Got to luv TC readers.
honey it was a joke…
Very cool idea, however it is not clear at all how to use Friend Connect with this. Looks like they require you to register for an iLike account?
This site is so biased and always licking Google’s boots. Google friend connect sucks, and so does opensocial. facebook rocks
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For my music, I like Playlist.com better than iLike.
Oh, don’t forget to join my group. The link is;
http://tinyurl....om/techstudents
I thought ilike didn’t have songs from warner and sony…
thanks for the cool music. i put the widget on my site and invited my members to check it out. we all need a little good music to push to these questionable times. ilike the electric feel song.
LikeLocator.com – good things
I love it. I want to have a party now just to have everyone pick their own music. Who’s coming?
Stacey Q – 2 of Hearts.
This site is so biased and always licking Google’s boots. Google friend connect sucks, and so does opensocial. facebook rocks
You’re a tool. Facebook 2008 = AOL 1994.
minus the revenues.
GREAT SITE! Please visit mine as well.
Erick, I think you added the non-social version here without Friend Connect, so we can’t add to it. You can try the social version out on my blog (linked above)
LOL.. GOOGLE-FAIL!
Modjo – Lady
Jamiroquai – Seven days in sunny June
later: Moonbootica – Der Mond ist unsere Sonne (feat. Jan Delay) (”the moon is our sun”)
This should get people on to the dance floor
“Are you talking to me? ” feat. Returner
The Torpedo Boyz
http://www.yout...h?v=VEAwx2RQAeo
A few highlights from my last party playlist:
Hockey – Too Fake
Ida Maria – I like you so much better when you’re naked
Whitey – Sweet Words for the Sour
Friends of the Bride – So, you think you can dance
Official Secrets Act – So Tomorrow
A much better way to accomplish the same thing would be via a collaborative Spotify playlist. In our office, we have one PC hooked up to the stereo, and anyone can add or modify the playlist, live, via Spotify. Fantastic piece of software.
iLike is back again, I resume using it.
Seeqpod had a similar but better widget called HollaWalla that allowed anyone — without needing to register — to embed a playlist on a website. any visitor to the site could add songs to the playlist along with comments without registering. This was central to the themed Friday Record Party on feedtheogre.com each week. However, with Seeqpod apparently down for the past 2+days — looks like we’ll have to try iLike — but I’m notLiking the 30 sec song clips vs. full length.
Hey you can add my tracks tracks please?.
Im trying to promote my tracks, so if you like it, then please add it to the list.
Artist: Shawn Borcherding
tracks…
http://ilike.co...k/Brain+Reaktor
http://ilike.co...g/track/Rebirth
Thanks for the awesome site
Shawn
If we are going to have a widget war, I’d bet on Musicane personally. I mean great to recommend music, share it, stream it, whatever, but if I can also buy what my friends recommend, that’s the endgame.