The Twitter blog introduced a new feature on Twitter. It now integrates with Ping.
Starting today Ping, iTunes’ new social network for music, and Twitter are making it even easier for people to share music discoveries with their friends by putting Ping activity, song previews and links to purchase and download [...]
This one from Mashable, Apple published a band’s guide for Ping. So if you’re a band or artist and want to take advantage of Ping, this one’s for you.
Kara Swisher of All Things D asked Jobs about the absence of deep Facebook integration with Ping and he replied:
Apple had indeed held talks with Facebook about a variety of unspecified partnerships related to Ping, but the discussions went nowhere.
The reason, according to Jobs: Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could [...]
Barely a week after launched, the tech world is up in arms against Apple’s music social networking, Ping. Fortune wrote:
So what can Apple do to turn Ping into something that feels like a real social network, not just a way to sell more music? Here are 10 suggestions, culled [...]
Apple today announced via press release that iTunes 10 had 3 million downloads and that in the first 48 hours, 1/3 of those downloads translated to a Ping user.
Ping is Apple’s music social networking site. It lets you follow such artists like Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, U2, and Yo-Yo Ma. [...]
“iTunes is the number one music community in the world, with over 160 million iTunes users in 23 countries, and now we’re adding social networking with Ping,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “With Ping you can follow your favorite artists and friends and join a worldwide conversation with music’s most passionate fans.”
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