Point 82: Marketing Tech News Roundup 8/30-9/3

There’s quite a storm brewing on the horizon.

No, we aren’t talking about Earl or even Mike Wise and the Washington Post. This past week, Facebook and Apple are getting the clouds rumbling with their squabble over Ping. But did anyone notice or were they all too busy tweeting from their iPads?

Other stories we’ll be highlighting include Google’s new Priority Inbox, the new Twitter app for iPads, and the general lack of interest most people show towards affixing a tracking bug to their body.

So without further adieu, here are our top picks for the week:

Surprise! People don’t want to be located.

You mean to tell me that people don’t want to broadcast where they are at any given time to the masses via the internet? We thought this might happen. Despite Facebook’s recent efforts, it seems as though location-based sites still can’t crack the code to reaching the general public.

Gmail has an important message for you (!)

Google recently unveiled the much-anticipated (and needed) “Priority Inbox”. For all you g-mailers, this means that your inbox will now consist of three parts: Priority, Starred, and Everything Else. Google hopes this anti-bologna and anti-bacn diet will help to slim your bloated inbox.

“Ping” fuzes iTunes with social networking.

This week Apple unveiled Ping as part of the new iTunes 10 software. From within the iTunes app,  Ping will allow users to “like” music, “follow” artists, and even leave comments. Sound familiar? Methinks that the people at Facebook and Twitter might have noticed as well

Twitter releases new app for iPad.

This week twitter released an app that will allow users to tweet right from their iPad. This tricked-out version allows anyone, even people without a Twitter account, to easily browse back and forth between tweets and web sites, pictures, and other media.

Facebook and Apple not playing nicely together.

So apparently the people at Facebook have taken notice. According to reports, Facebook, acting to “protect the privacy” of their users (HA) has blocked Ping users from searching for Facebook friends that are also on Ping. Once this happened, Apple “pulled the plug on the connection with Facebook friends.”

Well, that’s it.  Enjoy your holiday weekend and be sure to check back next week when we bring you reports from the frontlines of the Apple vs Facebook war.

Flickr photo courtesy of Giuliagas.