International concerts, and artist iCasts
We made a number of improvements to iLike.com and iLike on Facebook, but 3 are particularly worthy of mention:
1) Broader international concert coverage
iLike concerts include not only the United States and Canada, but we just added the UK, Ireland, Australia. We have imported all Ticketmaster concerts for the UK, Ireland, Australia, and we've enabled user-entered events in these countries as well to grow our concert coverage. Thanks for your patience on this, and we will continue to add other countries too. Also, guess what - iLike on Facebook now has venue maps!
2) Artists-iLike "quilts" for Facebook users
This feature that iLike.com users have had forever is now available for your Facebook profile as well.
3) Artists are posting multimedia bulletins with iCast
We've started enabling artists to communicate with their fans on iLike via iCast bulletins. iCast is like a combination of blogging, YouTube and MySpace Bulletins - it allows an artist to post writing, photos, audio, or video to their page. To see examples of this in use, visit the pages for these artists:
- Jason Mraz - blog post and photo
- KT Tunstall - personal video excerpts from her new DVD
Finally, for the many many users who have asked for us to link their iLike.com and Facebook accounts - we've started this process and will complete it over the next 4-6 weeks. To try it out, make sure you are logged in to iLike.com, add the iLike service within Facebook, and then click to link your two accounts. We will roll out a more "proper" announcement of this later, but you heard it first on the iLike team blog. :-)
