FACEBOOK COMPETITION?
Some competition is expected from Apple’s new social networking site, “Ping,” launched recently as a feature of iTunes, version 10. Because iTunes has been around for several years, Ping automatically has 160 million users. It is both Twitter-like and Facebook-like. You can have “followers,” a la Twitter, who don’t share in all your activities on the site, as well as friends who send you messages. Ping is just about music, however. You can find out what your friends are listening to and what concerts they plan to attend, as well as read their music reviews. You can preview what they like and click to buy one of their selections, usually for 99 cents. Looks like mainly a way for Apple […]
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