A post over at The Boy Genious Report states that Apple may be taking social networking further than just adding support for it in iTunes. Apparently Apple is creating its own application that will tie in too iTunes and possibly other Apple products and services. Here is a snippet from the BGR post of what might coming:
The social networking integration that we reported iTunes 9 would have seems to be part of a bigger social networking push by Apple. We’ve been informed that Apple has plans to tie iTunes 9 into a “Social” application that they plan to release in the future. It was said that the application (separate from iTunes) will be similar to Yahoo’s OneConnect offering and consolidate all your social networking services. (iPhone application? Desktop app? Wasn’t clarified to us).
The application will allow you to broadcast what music you’re currently listening to, allow you to share your music with people on your network, connect with your friend’s friends (no clue on that one), and update all of your statuses at the same time. ITunes 9 will let you broadcast music statuses as well.
As far as the iTunes application organization feature, we’ve been told it allow you to sort your applications alphabetically, by genre, date added, and of course, custom arrangement.
What does this mean for iPhione users? Hopefully we will see a official version of this app for the desktop transition over to the iPhone platform. I can see Apple doing a Mobile Me style sync where your desktop social network app stays in sync with the iPhone app as well. Of course all of this is 100% speculation at this point, but it would be pretty cool right?
Via: The Boy Genious Report
This would be pretty sweet, I'd definitely use an Apple social networking app on my iPhone and MacBook Pro. If it consolidated my existing accounts, it would be really useful. If it was yet another self-contained network, I don't think it would be able to achieve wide adoption, since by this time most people have already taken the plunge and joined one or more social networks, and won't want to manage another one. But a centralized app to manage existing social networks, and sync between various computers/iPhones would be nice.
I think this could be a good thing, although a bit late. Unfortunately everyone is Twitter and Facebook, so some new system won't work, but integration into those services (or expanding what is already in OS X) would be great. I think I would use a social app client from Apple that posted to Twitter rather than getting the ad supported or paid version of a Twitter client (I'm using Tweetie right now on the iMac).
I definitely won't post each song I'm listening to as I'm listening to them, talk about a quick way to lose followers, that would just be annoying.
Almost certainly there will be an app for the iPhone as well as the desktop. It will probably tie into Mobile Me somehow, perhaps making that service more attractive to people.
I am considering using Flickr more now that I see it in iPhoto, so maybe Twitter as well if there was a button there?
Just throwing this bit of paranoia out there: what if you broadcasted proudly each and every song you listen to as you are listening to them, then the pleasant folks at the RIAA crack down on you. Even if you manage to delete all of those songs, you have a pretty healthy history up there in the cloud!
This would be pretty sweet, I'd definitely use an Apple social networking app on my iPhone and MacBook Pro. If it consolidated my existing accounts, it would be really useful. If it was yet another self-contained network, I don't think it would be able to achieve wide adoption, since by this time most people have already taken the plunge and joined one or more social networks, and won't want to manage another one. But a centralized app to manage existing social networks, and sync between various computers/iPhones would be nice.
I think this could be a good thing, although a bit late. Unfortunately everyone is Twitter and Facebook, so some new system won't work, but integration into those services (or expanding what is already in OS X) would be great. I think I would use a social app client from Apple that posted to Twitter rather than getting the ad supported or paid version of a Twitter client (I'm using Tweetie right now on the iMac).
I definitely won't post each song I'm listening to as I'm listening to them, talk about a quick way to lose followers, that would just be annoying.
Almost certainly there will be an app for the iPhone as well as the desktop. It will probably tie into Mobile Me somehow, perhaps making that service more attractive to people.
I am considering using Flickr more now that I see it in iPhoto, so maybe Twitter as well if there was a button there?
Just throwing this bit of paranoia out there: what if you broadcasted proudly each and every song you listen to as you are listening to them, then the pleasant folks at the RIAA crack down on you. Even if you manage to delete all of those songs, you have a pretty healthy history up there in the cloud!