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iTunes Ping blocked by Facebook

iTunes Ping blocked by Facebook

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It came as no surprise when Steve Jobs announced that iTunes 10 would come with a new social networking feature called Ping. The new feature, which allows music fans to share their musical tastes with friends, was widely predicted in the tech press, but most assumed that integration with Facebook would be included. The social networking giant freely encourages other applications to use its APIs to allow connections with Facebook, but it seems that inviting 160 million...



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