iLIke was purchased by MySpace this week for $20 million. Hearing this annoucement, i couldn’t help think that something was off. Something just doesn’t make sense.
Some facts: iLike has 50 million registered users. That’s a huge number. They are definitely one of the most popular applications on Facebook and one of the best applications anywhere [...]
I just read a great article by Clive Thompson called “Head for Detail” about Gordon Bell’s latest experieement. Please just read the first 2 paragraphs. It’s about Gordon and how he is recording everything he’s doing (video, audio, emails, web, everything). He’s been doing it for the past 14 years and is able to bring [...]
I read this article by Tim O’Reilly called “Why I Love Twitter” and it has some good points. Specifically:
“Following” instead of “Friending” – in my opinion, only true/proper social networks that are primarily about social interactions (like Facebook or MySpace) should use 2-way friending. The rest should allow for 1-way following.
“Ambient intimacy” is about deepening [...]
I only played around with it a little bit, but here are my initial thoughts:
The good:
they got all the music in there to have a big ad-supported music service. This is not easy to do and only MySpace, Imeem, and (sort of) last.fm have done this.
The bad:
The interface/usability could be better. To make a playlist, [...]
