Apple’s Ping Music Social Network Starts With 160 Million Users

During their event today in San Francisco, Apple announced iTunes 10, the latest version of their music software. But they also introduced a big new feature in the app — Ping: a social network for music.

As Facebook And Orkut Duke It Out In India, SMS GupShup Hits 35 Million Users

As Facebook and Google’s Orkut duke it out for traffic in India, another social network has quietly gained traction in the space. SMS GupShup, a Twitter-like service in India that is primarily accessed via SMS, has hit 35 million users (up from 26 million late last year) with 1 million users joining monthly.

OpenFeint Launches Multiplayer Gaming Platform PlayTime

Last year, Aurora Feint launched a comprehensive social gaming platform dubbed OpenFeint. The platform has seen considerable success in attracting independent iPhone game developers to its rapidly growing community and Android developers as well. Today, the network is launching PlayTime, a set of technologies that will allow developers to make real-time multiplayer games with voice chat across iOS and Android.

Disqus Analytics Will Give Us More Insight Into Our Audience — Even The Trolls

No matter the size of your website, commenters tend to be a smaller subset of your audience. But they’re also often among your most loyal readers who are the most engaged. Wouldn’t it be great to know something about those people?

What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption

If you live in San Francisco and you haven’t tried UberCab yet, do it.

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