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Facebook Blocks Popular iLike App

Now that iLike owned by rival MySpace, Facebook is restricting some features of the iLike app on it pages. The move is bound to be unpopular with the 12 million users that have made iLike the #1 music app on Facebook. Over the last few days Facebook users who had installed the iLike app received this message:

MySpace Adds Some New Executives

MySpace made some new personnel appointment announcements. The four new additions to the company are as follows:

MySpace CEO Discusses iLike Acquisition

Early Monday, we reported that MySpace intended to acquire iLike.  This afternoon, during a press conference call, MySpace's CEO, Owen Van Natta, confirmed the deal and discussed a few details.

MySpace May Acquire iLike For $20M

MySpace has been doing rather well on the music front in recent days; this month, it's debuted a Heath Ledger-directed music video and some Pearl Jam songs.  The site may soon chalk up another win, too, as one report indicates it's about to make a significant acquisition.

iLike Via Google Friend Connect

iLike, the popular maker of social applications, which supplies music to Facebook, now has a social playlist gadget for use with Google Friend Connect. Once implemented, this gadget allows site users to contribute to forming a soundtrack for the site that it is on.

iLike Launches Ad Platform And Full Song Playback

Music Web site iLike has introduced new features, including full song playback and a self-serve advertising platform.

R.E.M. Launching New Album On iLike

When someone suggested that Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., release the band’s new album “Accelerate” on the social networking site iLike - he liked the idea. The move will make history and is another sign of the music industry’s loss of power.The entire album will be streamed on the site a week before it is released to the public on April 1st. Hopefully the servers will hold up.

U2 Puts New Song On Facebook

U2 may or may not support Facebook more than MySpace, Bebo, and all the other social networks out there.  But it apparently has ties to the creators of a Facebook app called iLike, and the famous band has, in any event, made a previously unreleased song available on Mark Zuckerberg’s site.

Bono Getting Jiggy with Facebook

Maybe it’s the future of music and maybe it’s not, but I think U2’s experiment with Facebook and the iLike widget is a pretty interesting move.

iLike's Expanded Cross-Platform Marketing Tools

UPDATED: Yesterday music-based social networker iLike made marketing music via a multitude of social network and web sites a lot easier with new services that enable single source updating.