You can now post on your favorite artist's wall! :-)

We've had a ton of new stuff in the pipeline, and we're going to be unveiling it in the next few weeks. This week's big new feature: artist walls! You can now write on your favorite artist's wall - either on iLike.com, or within Facebook! All you music lovers who have been asking for this can now use it to write comments about your favorite artists! :-)

The other big change for consumers comes exclusively inside Facebook - you can now see who's going to a concert at the individual show level - so if you're considering which night to see a particular band, you can see everybody who said they're going / wanna-go to help make your decision. For example, the screenshot on the right shows who's going to see Gwen Stefani's show tonight in Irvine, CA.

Also, we've started testing a new interface for artists & labels to access their iLike profiles and put up new photos & songs.  This interface is still in an "invite-only" mode as we work out the kinks, but some major artists like Bon Jovi, Kelly Clarkson, Young Buck, 50 Cent, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, and a plethora of SubPop artists have already posted full songs!  We hope to complete testing in the next couple weeks, and will then open it up more broadly.  In the meantime of course, anybody who doesn't want to wait can already sign up and post music/photos via our GarageBand interface for unsigned artists.

Finally, this week's quote of the week comes from our engineer Eugene talking to our PM Aydin.

Eugene: "Ben, can I borrow you for a sanity check?"

Aydin: "Uh, you may want to pick somebody other than Ben if what you need is a sanity check"

As an aside, a submission from our friend Ethan Bauman:

For those of you that don't know about Culture Bully, it's run by a guy named Chris DeLine.  Chris has been posting choice tracks and great commentary for over 2 years and has over 70,000 monthly readers.  If you haven't taken the time to peruse his blog, do yourself a favor and go check it out. You'll find commentary and music from Daft Punk, Guru, Mash-Ups and much more.

On a more somber note, Chris just got hit with a whopping $2,100 bill to have his appendix removed.  Since his only income currently comes from his blog, he's feeling pretty stressed about paying for his new appendix-free lifestyle.

We just donated $100 to him here, (http://www.culturebully.com/surgery/ ) and would like to ask you all to chip in what you can to take the pressure off of Chris.  He's been a steady and generous contributor of his time to the music community, so we hope the community will give him some love back. 

Comments

[mitko]

great job!!! keep on the good work!!!

[Lance]

Sorry if I'm just missing a link somewhere (that seems to happen to me on Facebook a lot), but how do I get the iLike application in Facebook to recognize that I already have an iLike account? Right now there is no linkage between the two. Thanks.

[danny]

Was wondering the same thing as Lance. Can't find a way to link my iLike account with my Facebook app. Seems a bit of a shame you can't do it.

Just seen a new app called MyFilter on facebook, which looks more promising - iTunes playlist generator, linked into Facebook! Sorry iLike, i'm moving elsewhere.

[Adriaan]

Hey, congrats with your rapid growth, and thanks a lot for the fan wall function.

-Your Friend Adriaan from South Africa xD

[Mark]

Can't wait to be able to link my iLike profile with the one on my Facebook! Here, here!

[Dick]

i think that this application should have catagories.like the world traveling app. like a raggae challenge, a rap challenge, an oldies challenge. just a thought, but people would dig it.

[Olgabert]

How come a number of blogs state that iLike had 1200 users prior to joining Facebook while you yourself claimed to have more than one million. Where does the number 1200 come from?

[baby_minders]

Mariah Carey

[Sarah L]

I love the fact that we can post messages to our fave artists:-) Woo-hoo!

[jhezah]

Monsoon
Each afternoon as the temperature
climbs into the hundreds,
I bloom, rich and fragrant, deep colors,
vibrant against the parched earth.
My life undulates like meringue on a pie I once baked for a man
who had no sweet tooth.

Dusty memories stir as I stand alone
against the darkening sky,
anticipating the rain.

[lell[y]]

sO niiiiicE (:

[mikael christiansen]

very nice article