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Apple Launched Ping After 18 Months of Negotiations with Facebook

Posted 09/22/2010 at 5:29am | by J.R. Bookwalter

While Apple’s new Ping social networking service for iTunes 10 was launched with great fanfare three weeks ago, users were discouraged to find that Facebook integration was not part of the mix -- and still isn’t today. But if you think waiting a few more weeks might help, think again.

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Posted 09/07/2010 at 9:44pm | by Mac|Life Staff

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Former Apple Employee Hits Ping On The Head

Posted 09/07/2010 at 1:59pm | by Seamus Bellamy

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Sometimes after a long weekend or extended vacation, it can be next to impossible to get back into a productive state of mind without a bit of prodding. As we slowly push our brains uphill on this post-Labor Day Tuesday, it's comforting to know that at least one person out there is willing to do a bit of thinking for us. Let's give a collective "thank you" to software engineer and former Apple employee Matt Drance for providing us some substantial food for thought. In turning your direction to Drance's blog, AppleOutsider, you'll find a well stated argument for why Ping--already a hot button topic in the Apple community--could very well end up being one of Apple's most popular and influential products.

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Ping Loses the Spam, Gets Interface Tweaks

Posted 09/07/2010 at 9:58am | by Ambika Subramony

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If you've been using iTunes' new social networking service, Ping, you may or may not have noticed the volumes of spam infiltrating its walls. It's much of the same stuff you see on Facebook--links to free iPads, iPods, and iPhones, fake accounts, and even people posing as Steve Jobs.

Well, according to iPodNN, Apple has managed to expunge the service of most of this unwanted material. And, to top it off, they've added back and forward buttons to make navigating the service a little easier. Users no longer have to use the iTunes Store's menu to navigate Ping.

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iPhone Spam Strikes Facebook and Ping

Posted 09/03/2010 at 5:22am | by J.R. Bookwalter

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They may not be bosom buddies at the moment, but Facebook and Ping are together in feeling the pain of spam -- in this case, the kind that touts supposedly “free” iPhones, as if there could ever be such a thing.

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24 iTunes 10 Tips, Tricks and Features

Posted 09/02/2010 at 3:57pm | by Roberto Baldwin

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The new iTunes is out. While it's, let's just say different looking, we took a good hard look at the latest update to the hardest working app on our Macs and came up with some tips, tricks and features you might find helpful. From Ping to Album Art List View, we check out the good, the bad and the gray.

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10 Things Apple Needs to Make iTunes Ping Totally Rad

Posted 09/02/2010 at 3:10pm | by J.R. Bookwalter

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September has arrived, and that means iTunes 10 has landed as well, complete with a swanky new icon, a streamlined (and mostly colorless) new look and a new social networking feature called Ping. But what exactly is Ping, and does it live up to all of Apple’s hype?

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Facebook May Have Blocked API Access from Ping

Posted 09/02/2010 at 1:57pm | by Florence Ion

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It appears the mystery as to why Facebook Connect was available, and then not available, has a little something to do with blocked API access. According to sources at All Things D, Facebook denied Apple's Ping access to the application programming interface that would allow users to search for their friends, which left them with only a few friends willing to respond to their emailed Ping requests. Normally, this kind of API access is open and doesn't require any kind of permission, but when it's being accessed numerous times at a very rapid rate (like, say, 160 million at a time), it's natural for Facebook to put a screeching halt to the requests and focus on protecting their users data.

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