A plethora of innovation, and over 8mm users

A lot has happened in the last month at iLike !!

iLike now has over 8mm registered users !! Back in April we started planning a party to celebrate our 2mm-user mark, and this weekend for the party we're already at 8mm. Wow! Thanks to all of you for the  support and feedback as we've scaled the product and grown the userbase.

Today we're unveiling some great consumer features and also some pretty powerful capabilities for artists:

1) Facebook users: dedicate-a-song
If you use the iLike service within Facebook, you can now dedicate a song to any friend. Whether it's a love-song for your girlfriend or boyfriend, any old favorite for your BFF, or some eighties song that somebody is still listening to, send a dedication, and it will show up automatically on your friend's Facebook profile!

2) Add multimedia to your favorite artist's page on iLike or Facebook
A few weeks ago we added a "fan wall" to every artist's page - on Facebook and on iLike. Now you can post images, audio, or video to any artist page, and it's just as easy as uploading a file.

3) Artist-entered concert data
A lot of people have asked us about expanding our ticket-coverage to include events that aren't in Ticketmaster. We've now extended iLike to allow any artist to add their own concerts to their page. This works one of two ways: (1) via the iLike Artist Dashboard (however, this is briefly an invite-only system, we're going to open it up to all artists in about a week) (2) via Garageband.com - any artist who has entered gig data on Garageband.com will see their gigs now show up on their artist page on iLike.com and on Facebook.

This week's quote of the week came from Steve, when brainstorming names for our new feature, "dedicate a song to me". We designed this feature to grow virally on Facebook, but we wanted to make sure the language is something people would understand but would also intrigue them. We had lots of options, "dedicate a song to me", "audio poke me", "add music to my jukebox", "add to my musicwall", etc. But the quote of the week was Steve's suggestion: "spank my wall" :-).  Needless to say, we stuck with "dedicate a song to me"!

Anyway, there's a lot of innovation just around the corner. The two biggest things coming up: (a) merging your iLike.com account and your Facebook account (b) different genres of music on the iLike music challenge!  We know a lot of you have been patiently awaiting these two pieces of work, they're a lot harder than we initially thought, but they're coming soon, we promise!