Comments on Ping

1. I’d love to be able to choose to share my listening, purchases, or “likes” separately. I don’t want to have to share all activity.

2. I wish that old album reviews were not automatically attached to my Ping account. Tastes change, perspectives change. If they are going to do that, they should allow me to delete reviews if I want to.

3. There doesn’t appear to be a way to delete your Ping profile once it is created. It appears you can only choose to make it private or public.

4. How does an artist sign up? It isn’t clear how an artist sets up a profile.

5. Does an artist have to sell tickets through Live Nation in order to list upcoming shows?

6. Without Facebook / Twitter integration, this network is going to have a very hard time growing in everyday usage. It will be cool for a while, but not the defacto social network that it could be.

7. Top 10 charts based on buying choices isn’t nearly as useful as a Top Ten based on listening habits. iTunes’ killer feature would be a new chart on the iTunes home page for “Most Listened To” albums. And Ping would show me the same chart generated by the listening habits of those I follow.