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Ping Shares Your iTunes Library, Now Almost Useful

by Terrence O'Brien on September 27, 2010 at 02:35 PM

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We were pretty skeptical about Ping's usefulness, and, after a short time playing with Apple's iTunes-based social network, our skepticism was borne out. Apple made sharing and liking music through Ping much harder than necessary, and failed to put any serious spam control in place. The result: within days of launch, activity on Ping had slowed to a trickle. The latest update to iTunes 10.0.1 fixes some of these issues by allowing you to share and rate songs directly from your iTunes library. Before, you had to search out tracks in the iTunes store.

The update adds a Ping button next to songs in your library, allowing you to quickly like or post a track, or visit the artist's profile. The same options are also available from the Ping sidebar, which shows your sharing options for the currently highlighted track as well as updates from your friends (on which you can also comment or like). Are the changes enough to convince you to give Ping another chance? Or, is it too little too late for Apple's spam-plagued network to find a home in your already packed social networking repertoire?

Tags: apple, apps, itunes, ping, SocialNetworking

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