Are you using Apple’s iTunes’ Ping?

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Are you using Apple’s iTunes’ Ping?

If so, how are you using the service? If not, what’s stopping you from using it?

What can Apple do to improve Ping and make it more useful to you?

308 Comments

  9. Don’t use Facebook, Twitter, or any other social crap vehicle. Waste of time, energy, and brain cells. Since I only have the few, I stay away from Ping and anything else of like nature.
    I do love Apple though. I have an iPhone, an iMac, a MacBook Pro, and an iPad as well as an iPod, and a TrackPad.

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  10. Don’t use Facebook, Twitter, or any other social crap vehicle. Waste of time, energy, and brain cells. Since I only have the few, I stay away from Ping and anything else of like nature.
    I do love Apple though. I have an iPhone, an iMac, a MacBook Pro, and an iPad as well as an iPod, and a TrackPad.

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  11. I generally detest social media, but being a muso, Ping made perfect sense for me as I enjoy my friends’ eclectic tastes – some of whom have more time than I do discovering great cuts and artists, both old and new.

    Favorite music – like books + movies – is one of those fundamental character defining attributes. The tipping point for Ping will be when it has enlisted greater numbers of bands and artists and – loathe as I am to say it – when it integrates with other social media sites. It may be a little one dimensional/genre specific at the moment…

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  12. I generally detest social media, but being a muso, Ping made perfect sense for me as I enjoy my friends’ eclectic tastes – some of whom have more time than I do discovering great cuts and artists, both old and new.

    Favorite music – like books + movies – is one of those fundamental character defining attributes. The tipping point for Ping will be when it has enlisted greater numbers of bands and artists and – loathe as I am to say it – when it integrates with other social media sites. It may be a little one dimensional/genre specific at the moment…

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  15. Make ping available thru all interfaces I.e. Mobile web, iPhone app, web.

    Make it “more social”

    Better integration to myspace, twitter, foursquare, and Facebook.
    (concerts + foursquare + ping = profit)

    Make it the anti facebook, a place for real people (not sluts and gangsters, and morons with sparkles)

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  16. Make ping available thru all interfaces I.e. Mobile web, iPhone app, web.

    Make it “more social”

    Better integration to myspace, twitter, foursquare, and Facebook.
    (concerts + foursquare + ping = profit)

    Make it the anti facebook, a place for real people (not sluts and gangsters, and morons with sparkles)

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  17. the problem is, without having your actual friends on there (no FB, or MSN auto search for friends), there’s no social.

    Its the Anti-social social network. Let me know when the Ping social stuff starts.
    Until then its a few guys congratulating Linkin Park on getting the number one spot, etc.

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  18. the problem is, without having your actual friends on there (no FB, or MSN auto search for friends), there’s no social.

    Its the Anti-social social network. Let me know when the Ping social stuff starts.
    Until then its a few guys congratulating Linkin Park on getting the number one spot, etc.

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  21. Okay, we get it. Some of you older folks, and curmudgeons don’t like the idea of social networks. That’s fine, each to his own.

    IMO, this Ping feature was over sold as a social network.

    Its basically a beefed up version of the comments in the itunes store. But it makes it easier to find out what your friends and (some bands) are buying / liking.

    If you are not interested in discovering new music, this service will never be interesting to you.

    If however, you are interested in dsicovering new music, this is a a great first step. There’s nothing like this anywhere yet and it makes a lot of sense to see Apple adding this to the iTunes Store.

    I have a lot of friends with great taste in music who buy a lot on the iTunes Store. This makes it very easy for me to find out what kinds of new music they are buying. I’ve already discovered a ton of music via Ping and think its great.

    Sure, it could do a lot more, and I’m sure it will, but the basics are in place and they are working well for me.

    No, I’m not that interested in what someone spread on their toast, or how much cream they put in their coffee. That’s for Twitter/Facebook. This is about music commerce, pure and simple.

    So yes, I’ve signed up. I’ve reached out to several people I know with great taste and encouraged them to sign up and its working great for me.

    Would I like to follow the bands and producers I like.. maybe, but that’s somehow assuming they have better taste than the people I know.

    I like the idea of Ping better integrating with the songs in your library. i.e. automatic notification of bands from your library who are touring in your area. That’s a great idea.

    For the rest of you, please keep it civil. I respect that you want to express your opinion, but the comments get so snarky and mean spirited.If you want to be critical of features missing from Ping, fine, but the “I hate social networking” meme is played out. If it bugs you, get off the computer you are reading this with and go out in the real world and be social.

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  22. Okay, we get it. Some of you older folks, and curmudgeons don’t like the idea of social networks. That’s fine, each to his own.

    IMO, this Ping feature was over sold as a social network.

    Its basically a beefed up version of the comments in the itunes store. But it makes it easier to find out what your friends and (some bands) are buying / liking.

    If you are not interested in discovering new music, this service will never be interesting to you.

    If however, you are interested in dsicovering new music, this is a a great first step. There’s nothing like this anywhere yet and it makes a lot of sense to see Apple adding this to the iTunes Store.

    I have a lot of friends with great taste in music who buy a lot on the iTunes Store. This makes it very easy for me to find out what kinds of new music they are buying. I’ve already discovered a ton of music via Ping and think its great.

    Sure, it could do a lot more, and I’m sure it will, but the basics are in place and they are working well for me.

    No, I’m not that interested in what someone spread on their toast, or how much cream they put in their coffee. That’s for Twitter/Facebook. This is about music commerce, pure and simple.

    So yes, I’ve signed up. I’ve reached out to several people I know with great taste and encouraged them to sign up and its working great for me.

    Would I like to follow the bands and producers I like.. maybe, but that’s somehow assuming they have better taste than the people I know.

    I like the idea of Ping better integrating with the songs in your library. i.e. automatic notification of bands from your library who are touring in your area. That’s a great idea.

    For the rest of you, please keep it civil. I respect that you want to express your opinion, but the comments get so snarky and mean spirited.If you want to be critical of features missing from Ping, fine, but the “I hate social networking” meme is played out. If it bugs you, get off the computer you are reading this with and go out in the real world and be social.

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