Apple and Facebook prepping Ping deal: will Ping get a second chance?

Ping may be getting a second coming, if a deal currently on the table between Facebook and Apple can be worked out. Ping did have Facebook Connect at launch, but apparently, this was not agreed with Facebook, and was pulled from the service pretty sharpish. Now, discusssions are going on again, and if sources are to be believed, Ping may be set to make a return to Facebook.

Word is that Facebook CTO Bret Taylor has been saying he’s “very confident” that Facebook and Apple will work out how to work together on Ping, despite rumours that 18months of negotiations over the use of Facebook Connect with Ping were left unresolved by its launch, at which point Apple just deployed it anyway.

Ping has been a bit of a flop to put it mildly, and was largely met with shrugs, sighs, and disappointed shaking of heads. Proper Facebook integration though, could give Ping a second wind.

What do you think? Is Ping on the Apple fail shelf already, or can it be brought back from its early death?

[via MacRumours]

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