Integrated with Facebook (follow your friends), similar to Twitter (follow Artists), based on the now popular asymetric friendship model (you don”t have to be a follower to get followed and vice-versa) and backed-up by personnalized recommendations (charts/artists/people to follow), Ping is available for desktop iTunes  and will soon be for IPod and IPhone as well.

It seems to be a bit slow for the moment, to lack datas for recommendations as well as artists profiles, but the integration of a sophisticated social network with a digital music service that already has 160 millions customers is definitely something to keep an eye on. Especially if you are MySpace…

But do people really have room for another Social Network ? Let’s wait and see….

Anyone who, like an increasing number of us, uses a smartphone to access the internet ( and Forrester Research believe mobile devices will be primary way of browsing the web by 2012) may wonder what  the prevailing ad model is going to look like.

Google has its adwords system that targets search, but on a small mobile screen the results have been unsatisfactory for all parties.

Apple has now entered the fray via its Apps store, that as UPI reports “could effectively turn developers into an army of ad salesmen”:

Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said 85 million iPhones and iPods have been sold — meaning customers are carrying potential mobile billboards.

More to follow on this in the coming days, quick intro video below

No Apple release in recent years has avoided this classic mash-up treatment, but Hitler gets an iPad has got to be the funniest yet in view of the mega-hype ( it was front page news on every serious UK newspaper yesterday.

*Parental Warning* - there is some strong language.. Enjoy