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"iLike, one of the 5 essential tools for marketing your band, is already great at helping artists create a single page that can reach their fans almost anywhere online, and help them monitor fan response.\nToday, iLike is announcing a suite of new Web and mobile social integrations to improve artists' music presence on Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, help distribute their tweets everywhere, and allow them to quickly create a custom iPhone app.\n\n\niLike's enhanced integration with Faceboook means that artists with Facebook Pages can add a music tab to their page and display tour schedule, songs, videos, and tweets. The Facebook page is then auto-updated with new material as it's added to iLike.\nIn the case of MySpace, iLike improves upon the standard calendar app with cooler content around concerts. So, listed events have their own page and show who's going, where it's taking place, include an add to calendar option, and have ticket buy options. The new concert listings are very similar to Upcoming event pages, and definitely likely to appeal to those artists that already have a strong presence on MySpace, but want the utility that better events sites can offer.\n\nBands and musicians with lots of video content will also love the fact that they can now sync their videos between YouTube and iLike, or post to YouTube from the iLike artist dashboard.\niLike's also working to incorporate artists' tweeting behaviors within all social touch points, so as an iLike musician you can opt to have your Twitter feed on your artist page, in the iLike music feed, and in your Facebook page's iLike music tab. If that's not enough, you can now even tweet from the iLike dashboard, and configure auto-updating to Twitter with your new iLike activities like video messages, album releases, and song streams.\n\nThe new self-service iPhone app for artists is another way that iLike hopes to help artists reach more fans. It provides a quick and painless way for musicians and bands to create their iPhone app with all the content they already have in iLike \u2014 music, videos, photos, blogs, concerts, fan wall, games \u2014 and customize the look and feel. Since the activity is pulled from the iLike Dashboard, artists don't have to worry about updating the app \u2014 it will update itself with new content.\nObviously, there's a growing demand for music sites, and social sites in general, to satisfy the demands of bands and musicians. We know that Kyte is anxious to get celebrities and musicians using their platform and their custom made iPhone apps, that Facebook is exploring uncharted territory (for them) with the celebrity of the Jonas Brothers, and that P Diddy is all over Ustream. Clearly everyone and their grandmother is trying to make a play to attract these high profile social media users, but for the time being, iLike's feature set seems to set them apart from the rest.\nMore Music Resources from Mashable\n- 40+ Free iPhone Music Apps- Social Music: Top 5 Sites to Build a Playlist- Social Music: Top 5 Music Recommendation Services- Social Music: A Last.fm vs Slacker Head to Head- Social Music: 5 Ways to Find Concerts Near Year- The Most Popular Music of 2008: iTunes vs Last.fm- Keep Rocking: 30+ Sites for Free &amp; Legal Music"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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