Facebook Executive 'Very Confident' Regarding Potential Ping Deal
Silicon Alley Insider reports that Facebook Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor noted yesterday that he is "very confident" that his company will reach a deal with Apple for collaboration on the music-focused social networking platform built into iTunes 10.
At a dinner with New York media last night, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said he is "very confident" Facebook and Apple will figure out a way to work together on Ping, Apple's music social network.
Apple and Facebook were reportedly locked in negotiations for at least 18 months before Apple launched Ping earlier this month. Ping debuted with Facebook Connect integration allowing users to find friends via their Facebook accounts, but the feature quickly disappeared. A subsequent report claimed that the two companies had been unable to reach a deal for the usage of Facebook Connect but that Apple had gone ahead and deployed the functionality anyway. After Facebook disabled Ping's access to Facebook Connect, Apple was forced to remove evidence of the functionality from the service entirely.The two companies have reportedly continued their negotiations, but no agreement has apparently yet been reached.
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22 months ago
Facebook Connect support would be nice, but I'm not so sure if even that is enough to save Ping. There's way too much wrong with it now to be effective. They need to rethink the way Ping works. There's a lot of potential there, but it's coming up short...
22 months ago
I don´t see the need for Ping. I don´t even like the name, but hey, it could´ve been iPing.
22 months ago
I can't imagine what exactly makes negotiations actually last more than a month.
What happens? How often do they actually sit down and talk?
lol
What happens? How often do they actually sit down and talk?
lol
22 months ago
Facebook account suspended, Ping completely ignored, I am set for the future and I am just about to call some friends about going to Paris for the weekend. No smartphones, no texting, no social media... We'll get the Eurostar and have our hotel pre-booked. Otherwise, it will be as it was 1995.
22 months ago
I would care a whole lot more about ping, if I actually got my music from itunes ;) instead i get all my music from youtube.
22 months ago
I just want to hide the Ping option in my sidebar. I don't have an account, I don't want an account, so screw off. Unfortunately, Apple seems determined to force all of their worst ideas down our throats.
Hopefully there's a group out there right now working very hard to build a Mac music player that doesn't actually suck and isn't continuously devolving.
Hopefully there's a group out there right now working very hard to build a Mac music player that doesn't actually suck and isn't continuously devolving.
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