This Blog has been very slow.
I think now is a good time to get it moving again. There has been News by Apple on September 1st, 2010, that there will be a Social Aspect built into the latest Version of iTunes (10.0) which you can find here .
The Service can be activated in your ITunes as you can see in the picture of my own (german) iTunes-Version.
Apple has already turned the Music Industry upside down. The best step to continue that is to take it more social.
I still wonder why the Music Industry did not innovate as much as they could have instead of paying Lawyers. When Napster started in 1999 big Media Companies should have built a peer-to-peer network themselves and put a “buy” button right next to each song and Video. This way they would have had their own iTunes (iTunes probably wouldn´t have been the success that it is now). But that´s a whole different storie…
The reason why I´m even posting about iTunes is that up to this point it will not work with facebook. Ping probably couldn´t be more social than it would be by working with facebok. But with Ping you simply can not find your facebook friends right now. See the related article in the New York Times
According to germam TechNews-Site heise.de both companies are working to resolve the issue. See the German Article here
