Apple today announced a number of upgrades to its music and media service iTunes. Most notably, it’s giving iTunes a social layer. Chief executive Steve Jobs showed off a service called Ping, which he described as Facebook or Twitter for music.
Read more at venturebeat.com
What can you do with Ping?
- Follow your favorite artists with a click and become part of their inner circle.
- Find out what music an artist likes and pick up a few recommendations.
- Get in on the action with artist photos and status updates. Even add comments to join the conversation.
- Follow your friends. Find new music.
- See what kind of music your friends and friends-to-be are into. Then follow them with a click.
- Find out what music other fans are listening to lately. Click on any album to learn more.
Ping allows users to follow others, just like Twitter. You can follow artists or your friends to find out what they’re listening or what they’re creating. It has custom song and album charts, a news feed, 17,000+ concert listings, and is available to 160 million iTunes users. Ping will be available not only for iTunes on the desktop, but for iPhone and iPod touch as well. – mashable.com
Visit the site http://www.apple.com/itunes/ping/
