Playlist Demo Blog

Add music to any website, social-app, or blog!

Here is a group-editable playlist. Feel free to add music to it yourself.

   

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Loading playlist..

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The code to generate this is incredibly simple. Here's all the code it took:

<script src="http://www.ilike.com/api/js"></script>
       iLikeDisplayPlaylist({devKey: "dk016IKVQVGBPvZcG4KDA4jOBlUxmieOmZdYVaUY/j4LIVs=", elId:"ilike_playlist", playlistName: "techcrunch", editMode: "edit", maxSongs:"40"});
    </script>
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<div id="ilike_playlist">Loading playlist..</div>
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Of course, you also need a developer key. More info is available here: http://developer.iLike.com

iLike Launches Full-Song Playback on Facebook; Chosen by Facebook as a "Great App"

The summer has been hectic and hot here at iLike. From a whirlwind 72-hour weekend office remodel to a rapid-fire series of major launches, we’ve rejected the idea of a leisurely summer. Vacations are for wimps!

What have we been up to, you ask? Here are just a few of the highlights:

• Full Length Song Streams on Facebook and iLike.com: In collaboration with Rhapsody, we’re recently launched full-song playback on our Facebook® application and iLike.com. Music fans now have access to more than 5 million full-length songs from all the major labels and hundreds of independents. Once you exhaust a monthly threshold of 25 free plays, you can either sign up for a Rhapsody account (for unlimited full-song playback) or you can return to 30 second song samples (the experience you’ve enjoyed in the past on our application). And, we’re in the process of rolling this service out on our other leading applications and platforms across the Web. To check out full song playback, go to: www.iLike.com. Or, sign up for a Rhapsody to get unlimited full song playback on iLike.

• Facebook Rewards iLike with “Great App” Status: We’re also really excited to share with you that Facebook recently selected iLike as one of two inaugural “Great Apps,” a program designed to reward applications that deliver value to users by offering meaningful, trustworthy and well-designed user experiences. As a result, Facebook will also be granting iLike special integration and increased visibility while they simultaneously crack down on spammy apps. To read more, visit our press blog.

• New Third Party Developer Program: We recently announced a new program for developers that will enable any third-party to add full songs and playlists to his/her Website, blog or application. HTML and FTML formats. To learn more, go to: www.iLike.com/developer

• New Concert Advertising Service (think “adwords for concerts”): We launched an unbelievably simple and powerful new self-serve advertising tool. Concert promoters, indie bands, venue owners and more can now buy and instantly create targeted, multi-media ads with social hooks that will be delivered to local fans who are interested in discovering live music events on iLike.com, Facebook and our other leading applications across the Web. To learn more and get started for as little as $5, go to: www.iLike.com/advertise

• More than 30 Million Users: Last but not least, we now have more than 30 million registered users (and counting!).

This rate of growth and innovation wouldn’t be possible without the continued support of our users. Thank you so much, from everyone on the iLike team, for your ongoing enthusiasm and feedback about our new endeavors.

Summer isn’t over yet. Imagine what we might do once the rain starts to fall (and fall and fall . . . ) in Seattle.

The summer has been hectic and hot here at iLike. From a whirlwind 72-hour weekend office remodel to a rapid-fire series of major launches, we’ve rejected the idea of a leisurely summer. Vacations are for wimps!

What have we been up to, you ask? Here are just a few of the highlights:

• Full Length Song Streams on Facebook and iLike.com: In collaboration with Rhapsody, we’re recently launched full-song playback on our Facebook® application and iLike.com. Music fans now have access to more than 5 million full-length songs from all the major labels and hundreds of independents. Once you exhaust a monthly threshold of 25 free plays, you can either sign up for a Rhapsody account (for unlimited full-song playback) or you can return to 30 second song samples (the experience you’ve enjoyed in the past on our application). And, we’re in the process of rolling this service out on our other leading applications and platforms across the Web. To check out full song playback, go to: www.iLike.com. Or, sign up for a Rhapsody to get unlimited full song playback on iLike.

• Facebook Rewards iLike with “Great App” Status: We’re also really excited to share with you that Facebook recently selected iLike as one of two inaugural “Great Apps,” a program designed to reward applications that deliver value to users by offering meaningful, trustworthy and well-designed user experiences. As a result, Facebook will also be granting iLike special integration and increased visibility while they simultaneously crack down on spammy apps. To read more, visit our press blog.

• New Third Party Developer Program: We recently announced a new program for developers that will enable any third-party to add full songs and playlists to his/her Website, blog or application. HTML and FTML formats. To learn more, go to: www.iLike.com/developer

• New Concert Advertising Service (think “adwords for concerts”): We launched an unbelievably simple and powerful new self-serve advertising tool. Concert promoters, indie bands, venue owners and more can now buy and instantly create targeted, multi-media ads with social hooks that will be delivered to local fans who are interested in discovering live music events on iLike.com, Facebook and our other leading applications across the Web. To learn more and get started for as little as $5, go to: www.iLike.com/advertise

• More than 30 Million Users: Last but not least, we now have more than 30 million registered users (and counting!).

This rate of growth and innovation wouldn’t be possible without the continued support of our users. Thank you so much, from everyone on the iLike team, for your ongoing enthusiasm and feedback about our new endeavors.

Summer isn’t over yet. Imagine what we might do once the rain starts to fall (and fall and fall . . . ) in Seattle.

Tons of new features, and iLike hits 25mm users :)

In the last few 12 months iLike has expanded across the web beyond iLike.com to Facebook, Bebo, hi5, and Orkut, and also beyond the Web onto iTunes, Windows Media Player, and the iPhone. A year ago we had just announced 3 million users. Now, one year later, we just passed the 25 million registered user mark. Wow, what a year it's been!

Some great updates on new features we've added since our last blog post...

1) Improved, richer artist pages
The artist pages on iLike.com and across the iLike network now reflect a richer design - we've separated out the artist-uploaded content into different modules for blogs, photos, bulletins, and videos. This particularly lets you more prominently see artist-uploaded videos, since there is a lot of cool stuff that artists have uploaded. For example, in this screenshot, you can see a recent video uploaded by Jason Mraz.

2) Local concert alerts from your favorite artists 
iLike has always kept track of your favorite artists, but in the past we've sent you reminders for concerts in a rolled-up newsletter, and we heard feedback that this sometimes caused people to miss a concert since the information was lost in a bunch of other data.  Now we send you a specific email whenever one of your Artists iLike announces a concert near you (edit your location here). On iLike.com and also on Facebook, you can click "I'm going" or "I want to go", and see who else is going.

On the Facebook version of iLike, you can also invite friends to go to the concert, and see who else in your college or highschool is interested. You can also see all the upcoming local concerts your Facebook friends are going to.

3) Artist-specific quizzes
Actually, we launched this feature a while back on Facebook, but we forgot to blog about it. (oops!). You can now play the iLike Challenge for many of your favorite artists - just pick an artist, visit their page, and click the Play Now button to see how well you can name the songs by the artists. You get 10 questions, up to 100 points, and challenge your friends. :)

 

4) Music recommendations from Facebook friends
On the Facebook version of iLike, you can now recommend music to your friends each time you "iLike" it. The first person across all of Facebook to recommend any song gets a permanent badge on that song's page, but there are also slots available to be the "first" within any smaller Facebook network whether its regional, college, highschool, etc.

Since enough of your Facebook friends are already busy tagging their favorite music on iLike already, we have now started also showing rollups of this week's most popular music among your friends, in your highschool, college, region, etc. This is one of the coolest capabilities we've ever built, because it uses the full power of the social-graph of a site like Facebook, combined with the rich user<->music interactions of iLike, to built a recommendation system tailored to your tastes and your friends. :-)

Anyway, wow, that's a lot to write about, and there's even more but we know you can't read it all. It's been a BUSY month at iLike!   

To close things off, the latest "quote of the week" came from Marcus, our product manager, who handles so much email that he spends hours simply dealing with organizing it: "I think my new job is - I'm a glorified inbox rule!". (we hope Marcus will soon figure out how to set up his inbox rules to work automatically for him.)

In the last few 12 months iLike has expanded across the web beyond iLike.com to Facebook, Bebo, hi5, and Orkut, and also beyond the Web onto iTunes, Windows Media Player, and the iPhone. A year ago we had just announced 3 million users. Now, one year later, we just passed the 25 million registered user mark. Wow, what a year it's been!

Some great updates on new features we've added since our last blog post...

1) Improved, richer artist pages
The artist pages on iLike.com and across the iLike network now reflect a richer design - we've separated out the artist-uploaded content into different modules for blogs, photos, bulletins, and videos. This particularly lets you more prominently see artist-uploaded videos, since there is a lot of cool stuff that artists have uploaded. For example, in this screenshot, you can see a recent video uploaded by Jason Mraz.

2) Local concert alerts from your favorite artists 
iLike has always kept track of your favorite artists, but in the past we've sent you reminders for concerts in a rolled-up newsletter, and we heard feedback that this sometimes caused people to miss a concert since the information was lost in a bunch of other data.  Now we send you a specific email whenever one of your Artists iLike announces a concert near you (edit your location here). On iLike.com and also on Facebook, you can click "I'm going" or "I want to go", and see who else is going.

On the Facebook version of iLike, you can also invite friends to go to the concert, and see who else in your college or highschool is interested. You can also see all the upcoming local concerts your Facebook friends are going to.

3) Artist-specific quizzes
Actually, we launched this feature a while back on Facebook, but we forgot to blog about it. (oops!). You can now play the iLike Challenge for many of your favorite artists - just pick an artist, visit their page, and click the Play Now button to see how well you can name the songs by the artists. You get 10 questions, up to 100 points, and challenge your friends. :)

 

4) Music recommendations from Facebook friends
On the Facebook version of iLike, you can now recommend music to your friends each time you "iLike" it. The first person across all of Facebook to recommend any song gets a permanent badge on that song's page, but there are also slots available to be the "first" within any smaller Facebook network whether its regional, college, highschool, etc.

Since enough of your Facebook friends are already busy tagging their favorite music on iLike already, we have now started also showing rollups of this week's most popular music among your friends, in your highschool, college, region, etc. This is one of the coolest capabilities we've ever built, because it uses the full power of the social-graph of a site like Facebook, combined with the rich user<->music interactions of iLike, to built a recommendation system tailored to your tastes and your friends. :-)

Anyway, wow, that's a lot to write about, and there's even more but we know you can't read it all. It's been a BUSY month at iLike!   

To close things off, the latest "quote of the week" came from Marcus, our product manager, who handles so much email that he spends hours simply dealing with organizing it: "I think my new job is - I'm a glorified inbox rule!". (we hope Marcus will soon figure out how to set up his inbox rules to work automatically for him.)