I spotted a new social music networking site – iLike.com through TechCrunch. Looks interesting at first, but just how easy is it to be a second comer in this market?

I mean last.fm recommends music based on your taste of listening, just as iLike does. However there’s a small problem here. It’s a lot easier to switch to another social networking site and get a few of your friends to follow, but it’s a totally different story to transfer your entire music history to another service (and I’m sure last.fm isn’t developing an export function at the moment!). Also, to get the benefit of the service – you have to transfer your friends and their music history as well!

I still think last.fm is a great service and continue to use it. Just haven’t found the commercial aspects of it interesting enough to pay for the service.