When Steve Job’s introduced “Ping” yesterday my first thought was: “hmmm, looks, feels, sounds like Facebook… but just for music”. Comments, follow, like, dates and even the color scheme..
After downloading iTunes 10 i gave it a quick try:
1. My “Follow recommendations” seem totally out of context. Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, U2… i never bought any single track of them (not even
previewed one)
2. My “People to follow recommendations” are also out of context. No idea why those have been picked – seems those are default for
all at the moment
3. First Band i wanted to follow: Radiohead… “No search results”, no follow button. Beatles, The Who, Hurts, Pixies, LCD Soundsystem, none of
them have a follow button
4. The “i follow” tab says “Connect to Facebook, search for people, invite people”. Well.. how to connect to Facebook from iTunes?
I use two different email addresses for both. One for facebook, one for my iTunes account… Searching for people via iTunes only
only works by email address… no name, city, country filter
5. There is this guy, Jason Bentley on my people-to-follow-suggestions… Who is he? The new MySpace Tom?
6. Uploading an Image doesn’t seem to work (tried in on OSX and Windows iTunes). Doesn’t seem to work for anyone, since no one
on Jason Bentley’s list is having an Avatar/Buddy icon
7. Mr Bentley has 6855 followers atm. Browsing his list without any filter options feels pretty useless
8. Checking my Library i can’t find any functions that do something like “who else bought this” or any function at all…
9. Concert Dates? Where are those? Can’t find any
So, nothing to review here at all… sorry.
Edit: just got my first “wants you to follow” request via EMail… link is not clickable (line break) in Thunderbird. Bugs, bugs, bugs…
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Just a few of those digital Stuff i enjoyed recently:
Music (no Last.fm or Virb Statistics here, just what came to my mind):
Games:
Web: