A few weeks back when Ping launched, this whole mini-war erupted because while initially there was Facebook support, it was pulled by Apple in the wee hours of the morning. People noticed, however. Following the Facebook blocking, Steve Jobs went on to say at a following keynote that “Facebook was requesting onerous terms”. He never divulged more than that, leaving the rest of us to wonder. And now, yesterday at the Web 2.0 summit, Facebook CEO, Mark...

Since it’s release back in early September, Ping hasn’t exactly caught on. The overall idea behind it is nice — a more social music experience. But now after several months for consumers and artists alike to try it out, it’s pretty evident that Ping is pretty useless. Compounding that fact is the whole Ping-Facebook integration issue which blew up a few days after Ping was launched and once visible “Facebook Connect” buttons and...

At first, Apple’s announcement of a social network of sorts built inside of iTunes was kind of exciting. The basic idea of tight iTunes integration and social networking features made a pretty decent product on paper. Furthermore, there’s millions of people using iTunes to download music from tens of thousands of artists. But reality thus far hasn’t been quite as nice. Currently, Ping employes a pretty shoddy (and slow) sign up process for artists,...

iTunes users running OS X, listen up: Do you hate the new vertical control buttons in iTunes? What about the new Ping drop down that pops up inline with every song in your playlist? Personally, I don’t mind either of the new additions. I do wish, however, that Apple would get a little more consistent with UI design choices. But that’s a discussion for another day. Back on topic — If you are aching for the old look pre-vertical buttons/ping,...

Many iPhone users on AT&T in the U.S. usually spend at least a small part of each day rationalizing why their coverage or network performance sucks so bad. Everything from hardware to network problems cross their minds as they desperately seek an answer. Many will claim that AT&T simply needs to add more towers as increased network load from increasingly dense cities puts an ever increasing load on each tower. But is that really the answer? Could be something...