Tag Archives: Ping

Ping to go dark on September 30

It’s no secret that Ping wasn’t exactly Apple’s greatest accomplishment. Frankly, it was a downright failure. There was no integration with established social networks like Facebook or Twitter, it wasn’t particularly easy to access, and it wasn’t engaging or entertaining in a way that social networks have to be in order to stick around. There just…

Rumor: Ping is finally disappearing

You guys remember Ping, right?  You know, that social network experiment that Apple let loose in iTunes. Yeah apparently it is still alive. No one uses it…ever, but it is still there. I tried it when it first launched and 10 seconds later I was back on Facebook. A rumor going around has people saying that soon there won’t even be a choice anymore. A…