0 Apple Special Event September1, 2010 in San Francisco Part 6

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And now a demo.

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Open to 160 million iTunes users in 23 countries immediately.

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You have 17,000 concert listings you can get notifications of in your feed.

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“The privacy is super simple to set up. Anyone can do it. It’s great.”

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You can set up a circle of friends to share music with each other.

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“Ping is for social music discovery.” You can follow people and be followed.

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Jobs is showing off Lady Gaga’s page, and all you have to do to follow her is to click the follow button.

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You can get a custom top 10 chart of songs and albums that are customized for you–customized from the people you follow.

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Once you click on Ping, you see the recent activity from your friends and artists you’re following.

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It’s a social network built into iTunes about music. “Follow your artists and friends to discover the music they’re talking about, listening to and downloading.”

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“Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.”

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“There must be a better way.” Apple is announcing Ping. Ping is a social network for music.

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Another thing they’re focusing on is discovery. How do you find out about new stuff? “What are my friends listening to? What are my favorite artists up to? What concerts are my friends going to? I’ve got to share this with my friends!”

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A new view is Hybrid view, which shows you album art, in your list view, if you have > 5 songs from 1 album.