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iLike Keeps Reaching Out; Portable Music Platform Launched
iLike, a symbiotic music application on Facebook, hi5, and Orkut, is now stretching further across the web. Early this morning, the group opened a fresh platform that allows site and application developers to incorporate pieces of the iLike application. Launch partners include Facebook application developers SGN, Flixster, Watercooler, Connected Weddings, Slide, and Mesmo TV, and iLike also pointed to participation from Google, Evite, and TypePad. "Already the leading music provider on the Facebook Platform and OpenSocial, we have enormous room to grow by empowering other apps to provide music to their users," said Hadi Partovi, president of iLike.
Call it "web 2.0," the "open web," or another buzz phrase, but internet properties keep stretching beyond their typical site borders. Portable widgets, flexible APIs, and RSS feeds are the calling cards of this generation, though models like iLike started with syndication and portability in mind. Now, more traditional destinations - including music-focused sites like Yahoo Music - are also spreading out. Over the next few weeks, music.yahoo.com is launching an overhauled destination that will feature content from YouTube, Wikipedia, Flicker, Amazon, Last.fm, and others. Yahoo is also planning to export pieces of its destination over time.
Permalink: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/091608ilike
Related article (registration required):
"Yahoo Music Starts Opening Up; Early Blueprints Revealed," September 11, 2008
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/091008yahoo
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