Ping.fm was an advertising-supported

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that enabled users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously. Making an update on Ping.fm pushed the update to a number of different social websites at once. This allowed individuals using multiple social networks to update their status only once, without having to update it in all their social media individually. Ping.fm grouped services into three categories – status updates, blogs, and micro-blogs – and updates could be sent to each group separately. Ping.fm was shut down on 5 July 2012, to be replaced by

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Ping. Seesmic was later acquired by

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History

Ping.fm was created with the intent of making it as easy as possible to post updates to multiple

sites simultaneously for free. This service has been discontinued.

Open Beta

After six months of being in closed beta, an announcement was made on 2 September 2008 that would no longer require private invite beta codes to be used to register and use the service. The launch into Open Beta was covered by outlets like ''

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Comparisons with similar websites

Ping.fm has been compared favorably to other websites with similar functionality like HelloTxt, which shut down in August 2012.

Technology

Ping.fm is powered by LAMP (

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through their user profile.

Supported services

A user can configure his or her Ping.fm account to aggregate content to the following services: *

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was discontinued by Google on December 15, 2011.

Acquisition by Seesmic

On 4 January 2010,

announced that it would be acquiring Ping.fm. In May 2012, Seesmic announced in its blog that Ping.fm would be closed in June 2012. In September 2012, Seesmic was acquired by

.Seesmic has been acquired by HootSuite
- Seesmic Blog, 6 September 2012

References

External links

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