I spent a few minutes inside Apple’s new Ping offering last night and came away largely underwhelmed. The widget below is a small example of the openness Apple will have to adopt for the longer-term. I exported some MP3’s out of Grooveshark and was quickly able to publish something shareable and embeddable.
Those two things should be at the core of anything touted as ‘social’ on the web.
The initial thrust from Jobs and company seems to be dead-centered on moving towards a transaction. That’s ok, but you need to promote and publicize it that way instead of pitching everything as this interactive social network. For now, that’s simply not the case.
The initial thrust from Jobs and company seems to be dead-centered on moving towards a transaction. That’s ok, but you need to promote and publicize it that way instead of pitching everything as this interactive social network. For now, that’s simply not the case.
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