ping.fm

by Chris on Jun.27, 2008, under Tech

It’s not even out of beta yet (but you can participate using beta code “pingofpings“), but this along with FriendFeed.com is becoming one of my favorite websites. It’s a very simplistic site really…there’s not much to it. It isn’t really a social networking website on it’s own…but it’s highly involved in the social networking scene.

The typical problem with most folks that participate in social networking is that they’re involved in too many of them that are separate and don’t share information with each other. I have profiles on Facebook, Linkedin, Plurk, Twitter, Friendfeed, and a number of other ones. The trouble is that if you want to update any of those sites, you have to visit them all individually.

Ping.fm tries to resolve this problem by allowing you to post updates to all of your social networking sites all at once. All you need to do is create an account on Ping.fm and then add in all the sites you’re a member of (that they support), and you can update from Ping.fm. They also provide mobile pages to do updates from, API’s, and even an email address you can send email to that will update the status of all your social networking websites.

If you’re heavy into the social networking scene, this is a great tool to use to keep all of your friends on different sites updated with the latest information on what’s going on. I highly recommend it.

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