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?
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Hilarious that people will post nonstop about how they hate social networking and then post on MDN 12x a day.
Right Breeze?
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MDN’s just more anonymous – about the only thing that’s different than Facebook.
Re Ping:
Needs Facebook. Signed up for Ping, haven’t been back.
Hilarious that people will post nonstop about how they hate social networking and then post on MDN 12x a day.
Right Breeze?
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MDN’s just more anonymous – about the only thing that’s different than Facebook.
Re Ping:
Needs Facebook. Signed up for Ping, haven’t been back.
Definitely needs more artists–especially classical and jazz artists (ahem, folks!). I’d be happy to follow more people on it if they supported the genres of music I’m most interested in.
Definitely needs more artists–especially classical and jazz artists (ahem, folks!). I’d be happy to follow more people on it if they supported the genres of music I’m most interested in.
Using what?
Using what?
Brian is one of the few here who actually gets it. I could consider myself more of a “curmudgeon” (as Brian put it), then a young hip social networker. I have a Facebook account and I look at it twice a month. Linked-In has only two connections in it. No Twitter yet, and no other social networking profile.
Ping has an excellent, very narrowly-defined and focused purpose. Its purpose is EXCELLENT: help iTunes users find new music. Nothing more. It is NOT a social networking site (in the sense that the definition implies).
I strongly believe that Ping will be a great success. It has barely been a month. It’s just way too early. There are hundreds of millions of iTunes users (most are NOT Mac owners, by the way). Majority are actually (relatively) younger, and therefore comfortable with this social-networking aspect of Ping.
Let’s re-convene in six months. I am convinced (someone iCal me if you care), Ping will be declared by most (not just Apple) a great success.
Brian is one of the few here who actually gets it. I could consider myself more of a “curmudgeon” (as Brian put it), then a young hip social networker. I have a Facebook account and I look at it twice a month. Linked-In has only two connections in it. No Twitter yet, and no other social networking profile.
Ping has an excellent, very narrowly-defined and focused purpose. Its purpose is EXCELLENT: help iTunes users find new music. Nothing more. It is NOT a social networking site (in the sense that the definition implies).
I strongly believe that Ping will be a great success. It has barely been a month. It’s just way too early. There are hundreds of millions of iTunes users (most are NOT Mac owners, by the way). Majority are actually (relatively) younger, and therefore comfortable with this social-networking aspect of Ping.
Let’s re-convene in six months. I am convinced (someone iCal me if you care), Ping will be declared by most (not just Apple) a great success.
I signed up mainly to follow some of my favorite artists, not to use it as a “look at me” site. That’s the nice thing about Ping, is you seem to get artists posting info about what they’re doing, and it’s actually relevant stuff, not “I had eggs for breakfast” crap.
Ping can be useful if it stays away from the Twitter senseless stuff. Make it a great resource to follow your favorite bands and get fun bits of info from them, and Apple will be on to something. It’s not something I check regularly, but it’s fun to see what someone was up to, or how they are excited about their latest album release (Linkin Park has been particularly active), and that it’s not washed-down press release material.
I signed up mainly to follow some of my favorite artists, not to use it as a “look at me” site. That’s the nice thing about Ping, is you seem to get artists posting info about what they’re doing, and it’s actually relevant stuff, not “I had eggs for breakfast” crap.
Ping can be useful if it stays away from the Twitter senseless stuff. Make it a great resource to follow your favorite bands and get fun bits of info from them, and Apple will be on to something. It’s not something I check regularly, but it’s fun to see what someone was up to, or how they are excited about their latest album release (Linkin Park has been particularly active), and that it’s not washed-down press release material.
I use it and a bunch of my friends are on it. It would be a lot better if you could actually post comments on your wall. There isn’t really a way to have a conversation, which isn’t very social…
I use it and a bunch of my friends are on it. It would be a lot better if you could actually post comments on your wall. There isn’t really a way to have a conversation, which isn’t very social…
Unfortunately, Brian’s post was too long for most of visitors here to bother read through…
Unfortunately, Brian’s post was too long for most of visitors here to bother read through…
iTunes Ping is somthing I would LOVE to use, however it’s not easy to understand.
I want to be able to make general statements on my profile, can’t figure out how to do it…
I can only understand how to comment on artists general statements and comment on my who my friends started following…
Most of my friends have agreed that we don’t like it bc it’s not simple enough… That and there is no Facebook integration.
iTunes Ping is somthing I would LOVE to use, however it’s not easy to understand.
I want to be able to make general statements on my profile, can’t figure out how to do it…
I can only understand how to comment on artists general statements and comment on my who my friends started following…
Most of my friends have agreed that we don’t like it bc it’s not simple enough… That and there is no Facebook integration.
What I dislike most about Ping is how it explicitly forces you to use the same user moniker as the name on the billing information. Shouldn’t I be allowed to choose whether I want to be anonymous or not? At present I can’t both be an itunes customer and a Ping user unless I am willing to broadcast my identity to the whole world
Apple has always totally sucked when it comes to it’s users on line privacy and security.
Remember that little incident where that ad related web site was able to find out the existence of the iPad at Cupertino?
I’m glad they got a taste of the insecurity they deal out to everyone else. In fact I could publish Steve Jobs personal home address right now if I wish, but I respect the man’s privacy, even when he doesn’t respect ours apparently.
What I dislike most about Ping is how it explicitly forces you to use the same user moniker as the name on the billing information. Shouldn’t I be allowed to choose whether I want to be anonymous or not? At present I can’t both be an itunes customer and a Ping user unless I am willing to broadcast my identity to the whole world
Apple has always totally sucked when it comes to it’s users on line privacy and security.
Remember that little incident where that ad related web site was able to find out the existence of the iPad at Cupertino?
I’m glad they got a taste of the insecurity they deal out to everyone else. In fact I could publish Steve Jobs personal home address right now if I wish, but I respect the man’s privacy, even when he doesn’t respect ours apparently.
Nope !!!
Nope !!!
Like many above, I signed up the first day and haven’t been back. I don’t really care what other people are listening to–most other people are idiots about music. I’m sure they don’t care what I’m listening to either, since I’m an idiot.
Like many above, I signed up the first day and haven’t been back. I don’t really care what other people are listening to–most other people are idiots about music. I’m sure they don’t care what I’m listening to either, since I’m an idiot.
I signed up once and haven’t been back either. Didn’t seem to work in any intuitive way I might expect from Apple. Don’t see this being something successful. I don’t blame Apple for trying though. As others have said it seems way too half or quarter baked. But then as a fiftysomething I’m not exactly the target audience.
I signed up once and haven’t been back either. Didn’t seem to work in any intuitive way I might expect from Apple. Don’t see this being something successful. I don’t blame Apple for trying though. As others have said it seems way too half or quarter baked. But then as a fiftysomething I’m not exactly the target audience.
Facebook integration is needed, then I’ll use.