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iLike’s iPhone app to find nearby shows

Budi Putra — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:36:39 +0000

iLike launched another iPhone application called “Local Concerts” [iTunes link] recently, enabling users to follow any artist and receive alerts whenever they are coming to town. And it’s available free for iPhone and iPod Touch.

This app’s features including:

Find local shows near your neighborhood.
Access a huge, global database of concerts and live events.
Browse nearby concerts by date or favorite venue.
Buy tickets and get directions to the show.

With more than 50 million registered users, iLike –the Web’s leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook, Orkut, hi5 and Bebo platforms– helps people share music recommendations, playlists, and personalized concert alerts.

[via TechCrunch]

iLike local concert app and custom apps for 250 artists

Shane McGlaun — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:33:06 +0000

A while back there was a story going around about the number of apps in the Apple App Store being inflated by template-based apps that are the same except for different data. This app called iLike is a perfect example of template-based apps.

The application is a local concert app that is offered for 250 different artists. Each app shows the tour dates and concert times for the different artists and provides notifications when a local concert is announced.

The Local concerts app checks the music on the iPod and when a concert by one of the bands on the user’s iPod is scheduled, the user is notified. The Local concerts app is free, but the artist specific iLike apps sell for $1.99 each.

[via Mobidata]

iLike launches iPhone app

Budi Putra — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:11:13 +0000

iLike today is launching new services for artists to connect with their fans. New features include iPhone applications, Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace syndication. Using iLike’s “turnkey system”, musicians will be able to create iLike-branded iPhone apps.

According to PCWorld:

Most of these new features, while useful, are logical additions to increase iLike’s reach into social networks. However, the addition of iLike’s iPhone application tool, the turnkey system, is an interesting development. Instead of creating an umbrella application for users to access all iLike artists in a single application, the music service has instead opted to allow individual artists to create their own iPhone apps under the iLike brand.

With more than 45 million registered users and 300,000 artists, Seattle-based iLike helps people share music recommendations, playlists, and personalized concert alerts. iLike also runs indie music site GarageBand.com.

[via PCWorld]