Seesmic purchasing Ping.fm social update service

January 4, 2010 - 11:43 am | 41 views

Technology.am (Jan 04, 2010) — Seesmic, which makes Twitter and Facebook access apps, is buying Ping.fm, a service for updating several social services at the same time. Conditions of the agreement are not being disclosed. Ping co-founders Adam Duffy and Sean McCullough are joining Seesmic and will commence work on integrating their service into the Seesmic clients, said Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur.

ping A year and a bit later, there’s been some consolidation of the players; however the game is still perplexing: Pownce and Kwippy are gone, for example, and Friendfeed has been captivated by Facebook. However many people still make use of multiple social networks and messaging systems, and for the majority part, they require diverse applications to access them all. The service is easily reached from the Ping.fm Web site, from different third-party mobile and desktop clients, as well as from instant messaging services and e-mail. It’s a extremely competent switching station for individual network updates.

Ping.fm has elasticity to allow you send definite updates to definite services. Such as, you can represent one update as personal and have it posted on Facebook and Twitter, and the next you can describe work-related and mail only to LinkedIn. Seesmic at present reads Twitter and Facebook updates, however it will likely get support for additional services in upcoming versions.

A quick glance at stats says that Ping.fm is increasing, and definitely the multi-network skills that Seesmic is acquiring fit into that company’s undertaking.

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