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Early Ping Reviews Strike Sour Note

03.09.2010
's "social network for music" may be off-key. , a new feature in that lets users follow their favorite artists and find out what music their friends are discussing and downloading, was unveiled Wednesday by CEO Steve Jobs at in San Francisco. Just two days later, a cacophonous crowd of critics are carping about Ping's rampant spam, security holes, crippled Facebook integration, and overall poor design.

Gaga for Spam

Spam is already clogging Ping's boards. As the screen shot below illustrates, four of eight posts in Lady GaGa's comments window are spammy pitches for iPhones and iPads.

, a blogger for security software vendor Sophos, chided Apple for not anticipating the spammers' assault on Ping:

"Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms. But apparently Apple didn't consider this when designing Ping, as the service implements no spam or URL filtering. It is no big shock that less than 24 hours after launch, Ping is drowning in scams and spams," Wisniewski writes.

Facebook Woes