Share your music tastes on FaceBook :-)

A brief update on iLike.com:

1. You can now share your music tastes on FaceBook. If you have added Songs iLike to your profile, or if the iLike Sidebar is tracking the music you play on your computer, you can now share your music tastes by adding the iLike Widget to your FaceBook minifeed from this page.

2. User-search is back. We turned this off briefly while dealing with some growing pains. In case you didn't read our press release, iLike.com now has over 500,000 registered users, so much of our time is spent simply keeping the site running despite accelerating growth.

3. We're gonna extend the deadline one week for keeping user playlists hidden (only to yourself). If you are using the iLike Sidebar, check your privacy settings to decide whether or not you want to share your music library playlists on iLike (or to choose which playlists to share).

Lastly, this week's quote of the week comes from our engineer Daniel, who has been working on a major new area of the website, and is finally putting together the pieces. When asked whether it's all done yet, he replied: "everything has worked... at least once".  We're thinking it's gonna be a few more weeks before Daniel's project is ready :-)

Comments

[Gregory R]

i am a blind user new to iLike. as a blind user, i cannot use
iTunes, and i cannot access all of the objects on artist documents, especially those that are intended to allow one to play a track.

I had a friend of mine check your website and he saw the wheelchair icon you use to indicate accessibility, but since I am blind, I cannot see that icon. Do you have anyone there who is responsible for accessibility? whatabout usability? the 2 are sub and super-sets of the same principle - device independence (a.k.a. you shouldn't need a mouse slash pointer to access information).

i have only access to the keyboard and can only access objects that are included in the tab-order, which individual songs are not.

i am willing to provide my personal expertise as both a blind
webmaster and an invited expert to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). a good starting point for accessibility resources is:

References for Web Accessibility:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/

iLike has the potential to be an outstanding resource for all
cybernauts, sighted or not; it just needs to follow standards and
comply with best use guidelines for all of the technologies it
includes.

i also could not post this entry to the iLike blog myself, as you use a visual turing test (a.k.a. CAPTCHA) which i cannot visually process and hence cannot post to the community blog. this neeeds SERIOUS attention - please consult:

Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests: Problems and Alternatives:
http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest

please, don't leave me hanging out here in the dark...