[danielhfrank]

Great post-- Ping really is a waste of a great idea. This should have been the death knell for last.fm by letting you connect with friends through the application you use to listen, but they didn't put in the most important feature! The entire 'like' feature lives in the store, not in the part of iTunes where you actually listen to music, which is where I would want to be able to communicate that I like something. Maybe olefoo is right, Apple just can't find any room in their 'walled garden' for user-generated content...