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Apple lauches Ping : Facebook meets Twitter for Music

Posted on : 02-09-2010 | By : christophe | In : Carve Consulting Blog

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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….

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