Posts Tagged with ‘iLike’

When it comes to the social side of Web 2.0 – you know, the MySpaces, the Facebooks – I’m lost. I do very well understand why such places exist, I simply cannot for the life of me grasp why they’ve become so popular, and, furthermore, managed to remain so. Baffling, really. When I consider all the time misspent maintaining relations with “friends” lists, most of whose contacts hold no real allegiance to one another anyhow, I wonder how such holes [...]

iLike is now the fastest growing music service on the web, with 300,000 new users signing up every day, according to a recent press release from the company. Today, I found out that Facebook has a lot to do with the sudden popularity of the emerging iLike service. According to a Reuters article, some recent changes at Facebook (which unveiled Facebook platform on May 24 for developers to use freely) were put to very good use by iLike with a custom version [...]

iLike is a very young project: it only turns 2 month old tomorrow. Nevertheless, it has already managed to attract investors: a successful online tickets agency TicketMaster has just bought 25% of iLike stake for US $ 13.3 million.
TicketMaster president and chief operating officer Sean Moriarty said: “With our investment in iLike.com, we look forward to a series of integrations that will introduce live events and ticket-purchase opportunities within the iLike music discovery process.” Actual implication of this vague enough [...]