Small changes make a big difference

We made a bunch of small improvements this week but we know they will make a big difference for all our users and our artists! :-)

First: improved leaderboards on the iLike Music Challenge
The iLike Challenge on Facebook now has (a) a leaderboard for all my friends (b) a leaderboard for all Facebook (c) stats for the "best streak" among friends or across Facebook. We're really excited about the new "best streak" scoring on the Challenge, it's real fun. Can you get a streak over 100 points? The current best streak on Facebook is 749 points!! Try beating that!

Second: More GarageBand artists now have pages on Facebook and iLike
There's no really new user-interface here, but GarageBand artists' pages on iLike.com and on Facebook are now more consistent, and for more artists. We still have a lot of work to do here, and new stuff coming down the pike. In about a week or two we'll finally allow artists to add concert listings (including all the Garageband artist gigs), so hold on!

Third: nice summaries of all your music (or your friends') on Facebook
We've built a music profile summary for every Facebook user who uses iLike, combining your favorite artists, favorite songs, concerts, and one music video. If you're a Facebook user, check out your music profile! We will be adding to this soon, especially next up are (a) merging your iLike.com profiles into Facebook (if you use both), and (b) adding your iTunes playlists into Facebook (if you use the Sidebar).

Fourth: You can pick your "artists iLike" on Facebook
This feature has been available on iLike.com for a while, but we added it on Facebook - go to any artist page, and click the "iLike" button to add that artist to your artists iLike, and we can then notify you when that artist is on tour, etc. Go check out your current Artists iLike list and add more.

Finally, this week's quote of the week came from a small discussion between our president (Hadi) and our CEO (Ali), who are twins. After debating two sides of a point during a team offsite, Ali finally caved: "Yeah, you're right, you're right". Always humble and gracious, Hadi replied "I know :-)".  Ben of course added "You two are like a married couple".

Comments

[cj]

we're all so impressed with the great work you're doing for indies boys. almost like you are a couple of indie saviors.

god bless you.

[cj]

we're all so impressed with the great work you're doing for indies boys. almost like you are a couple of indie saviors.

god bless you.

[cj]

despite the great work tho, what has happened to hadi's poll about "opting out" of iLike as a band? I don't want to be rich and famous like you guys so I want to opt my band out.

god bless you.

[E]

Still waiting for that link between Facebook and main iLike account. Shouldn't that be a priority?

[Moriah]

This is not related to your blog. But I cant use your Feedback option on the site. It tells me "Required fields are your name, your email address, your question and, when requested, the Captcha code!" But there is no Captcha. I have tried in both Safari, Firefox, and Flock.

Are you trying to not receive feedback for some reason?

[Tom]

Liking Ilike very, very much indeed. Almost loving. Constructive criticism:

- Concert schedules don't seem as complete as they could be. I'm unable to see concerts on the lineup that I've got tickets for and everything. This may well be promoters not being friendly enough with you.

- For the love of God fix the bug in the Music Challenge that makes some questions come up without the correct answer as an option. I mean it's just a game and all but... shit, you know how nerds are. Makes me grumpy as all get out, specially when I'm on a streak. Happened twice this morning!

- Stupid 2.0 name, but I spose that's a little beyond fixing.

Again, these are intended in the spirit of liking your proddick very much indeed. Keep up the good work!

[Ron Smith]

Any chance of being able to track and display artists with Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Thai characters soon??? I'm dying for A LOT of my other artists to display in my profile...particularly with pictures.

LOL, I really do hope for this to come soon, but overall, keep up the good work with iLike.

[Tony]

Please, add the ability to use existing iLIke accounts within facebook. Come on!