It’s a very big day for the extended iLike community. We’re thrilled to announce that MySpace has entered into an agreement to acquire iLike.
On a personal note, it’s a humbling moment for Ali and me. We’ve always used MySpace as a benchmark to measure our own progress in the online world of social music. Having built the most popular music services on the other social networks, we never imagined that we’d someday team up with MySpace, and we’re excited to see what we can accomplish as one team.
In the short term we’ll be focused on collaborating with our friends at MySpace, who share our commitment to helping fans discover content and connect with artists online, to make our social music discovery platform even more powerful. By joining forces with MySpace, we think we can provide an unmatched social music platform to help you discover music and connect with your favorite artists.
The iLike.com website and applications will continue to operate as they always have – except that we’ll be working to make them even better in the weeks and months to come.
Pictured in photo from left to right: Ali Partovi, Mike Jones (COO of MySpace), Owen Van Natta (CEO of MySpace), Nat Brown, Hadi Partovi
And that’s not the only big iLike development in the last few days. iLike is now enabling music fans who discover and share music on iLike to purchase songs and albums (in MP3 format) in-page directly from iLike.com.
Our MP3 download service is currently in Beta on iLike.com, meaning that we’ll continue to improve it as we get feedback from users and artists. Our goal over time is to offer music fans the ability to impulse buy in-page from wherever they are.
Change is exciting, but we know it can also cause anxiety – even when the developments are good. We’ll continue to update you here when there is anything new or noteworthy to share. We value your ongoing support and we welcome your feedback.
Ali & Hadi Partovi, co-founders of iLike
