Comments on: iLike – Last.fm – MOG Facebook Smackdown! http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/ news & perspectives on fan communication and online social life Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:03:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ali Partovi http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Ali Partovi Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:20:00 +0000 http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/#comment-974 Great article, Nancy! As usual, Alexa is neither completely accurate, nor completely off. Indeed the traffic on iLike.com has dipped, but for simpler reasons than you might suspect. The reasons are: a) given the explosive growth on Facebook, we intentionally disabled various aspects of iLike.com -- including all email notifications, newsletters, etc -- deliberately hoping to temporarily reduce our traffic to conserve server capacity for our Facebook app. b) despite these efforts, the massive Facebook traffic caused daily outages all last week, not only on Facebook's own servers but also on ours, taking out both the iLike FB app and iLike.com. While I won't be surprised to see a time when iLike.com users are "switching" in significant numbers to use iLike on Facebook, I don't think that's happening yet. As of now, the users of iLike.com still greatly outnumber the users of iLike on Facebook (perhaps not for long!). Also, we have not yet announced our Facebook app to the iLike mailing list, nor have we interlinked the two databases -- so users on iLike.com can't (yet) easily switch their accounts over to Facebook. As these things change over the coming weeks, it will be interesting to watch -- indeed a lot of iLike.com users might switch permanently to using iLike on Facebook instead! regards, Ali Partovi CEO, iLike.com Great article, Nancy!

As usual, Alexa is neither completely accurate, nor completely off. Indeed the traffic on iLike.com has dipped, but for simpler reasons than you might suspect. The reasons are:

a) given the explosive growth on Facebook, we intentionally disabled various aspects of iLike.com — including all email notifications, newsletters, etc — deliberately hoping to temporarily reduce our traffic to conserve server capacity for our Facebook app.

b) despite these efforts, the massive Facebook traffic caused daily outages all last week, not only on Facebook’s own servers but also on ours, taking out both the iLike FB app and iLike.com.

While I won’t be surprised to see a time when iLike.com users are “switching” in significant numbers to use iLike on Facebook, I don’t think that’s happening yet.

As of now, the users of iLike.com still greatly outnumber the users of iLike on Facebook (perhaps not for long!). Also, we have not yet announced our Facebook app to the iLike mailing list, nor have we interlinked the two databases — so users on iLike.com can’t (yet) easily switch their accounts over to Facebook. As these things change over the coming weeks, it will be interesting to watch — indeed a lot of iLike.com users might switch permanently to using iLike on Facebook instead!

regards,

Ali Partovi
CEO, iLike.com

]]> By: Nancy Baym http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-973 Nancy Baym Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:03:04 +0000 http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/#comment-973 David -- You're right, that's the MOG decline I thought I saw. Glad you caught that. Though at 22,000+ users, the MOG app doesn't seem to be picking up new users at anywhere near the rate of the other 2. I like your blog BTW, and am looking forward to the book! Nancy David — You’re right, that’s the MOG decline I thought I saw. Glad you caught that. Though at 22,000+ users, the MOG app doesn’t seem to be picking up new users at anywhere near the rate of the other 2.

I like your blog BTW, and am looking forward to the book!

Nancy

]]> By: David Jennings http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-972 David Jennings Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:37:06 +0000 http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/ilike-lastfm-mog-facebook-smackdown/#comment-972 Great piece of investigative analysis, and your speculative interpretation is very interesting. I just checked Facebook's music apps (http://www.facebook.com/apps/index.php?category=16), and there appear to be two MOG apps. One for My Top Songs This Week, which has 5,500 users, and one for My Last Songs Played, which has 22,000+ users. Could that be linked to the decline you observed? Great piece of investigative analysis, and your speculative interpretation is very interesting.

I just checked Facebook’s music apps (http://www.facebook.com/apps/index.php?category=16), and there appear to be two MOG apps. One for My Top Songs This Week, which has 5,500 users, and one for My Last Songs Played, which has 22,000+ users. Could that be linked to the decline you observed?

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