Ping.fm

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Ping.fm
URL http://www.ping.fm
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Micro-blogging
Registration Required
Available language(s) English
Owner Standard Antics, LLC
Created by Sean McCullough, Adam Duffy, Ryan Merket
Launched March 7, 2008
Revenue Private Funding
Current status Open Beta

Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.

Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once. This allows individuals using multiple social networks to update their status only once, without having to update it in all their social media individually. Ping.fm groups services into three categories – status updates, blogs, and micro-blogs – and updates can be sent to each group separately.

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History

Ping.fm was created with the intent of making it as easy as possible to post updates to multiple social networking sites simultaneously. The idea came about when creators were updating status messages with micro-blogging sites Twitter and Tumblr. The idea of posting the exact same information in two places seemed a bit tedious, so Ping.fm was born.

Open Beta

After 6 months of being in closed beta, an announcement was made on[1] Sep 2, 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 Wired,[2] and Mashable[3]

Comparisons with similar websites

Ping.fm has been compared favorably to other websites with similar functionality like HelloTxt.

Technology

Ping.fm is powered by LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) with some .NET used in the core software. An API allows programmers to apply for an application key in order to develop third party applications. Users must apply for an API key through their user profile.

Supported services

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

3rd Party Applications

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Name URL Platform
AnyPost http://skamped.com/anypost Mobile - DangerOS - Android
BigTweet http://www.bigtweet.com/ Bookmarklet
PingLater http://pinglater.fm Web
BlackPing http://www.blackping.com Mobile - BlackBerry
Blogo http://www.drinkbrainjuice.com/blogo Desktop
ceTwit http://www.kosertech.com/blog/?page_id=5 Mobile
Gwibber https://launchpad.net/gwibber Desktop
Desktop Application http://getsatisfaction.com/pingfm/topics/is_there_a_desktop_application_for_ping_fm Desktop
Desktop Ping.fm Widget http://pingwidget.com Desktop
Gravity http://mobileways.de/gravity Mobile - Symbian (S60v3, S60v5)
koornk http://www.koornk.com Web
Kronologger to PingFM http://kronologger.com/gprs/post2_pingfm.php Other
Locale Ping.fm Plug-In http://sites.google.com/site/steelgirderdevelopmentsite/home/locale-ping-fm-plug-in Mobile - Android
Mozilla Ubiquity script for ping.fm http://ubiquity.washing-up.co.uk/pingfm.html Web
PHP API http://dmitrizone.com/phpingfm Web
PingDroid http://www.pingdroid.com/ Mobile - Android
PingFeeder http://www.pingfeeder.com IRC
Ping Fire http://www.pingfire.us Plugin
PingPressFM http://www.soldoutactivist.com/project-pingpressfm Wordpress
Ping Ubiquity http://waleed.doubleudesigns.com/2008/08/ubiquity-and-pingfm/ Web
Ping.fm @ Ubiquity http://maloki.net/projects/pingfm-ubiquity/ Other
Ping.fm command for Mozilla Ubiquity http://trodrigues.net/ubiquity/pingfm/ Plugin
PingVine http://www.pingvine.com Web
PingBoard http://code.google.com/p/pingboard/ Desktop
PockeTwit http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/ Mobile - Windows Mobile
PostLater http://www.postlater.com Web
Profilatic http://profilactic.com/ Web
quickTwit http://static.tmblr.us/hiptop/quickTwit.htm Mobile - DangerOS
SocialThing http://socialthing.com/ Web
Spaz http://funkatron.com/spaz Desktop
Terminal Pings http://www.pelikoira.net/terminal_pings.php Desktop

Acquisition by Seesmic

On January 4th, 2010 Seesmic announced that it would be acquiring Ping.fm [4]

Notes

  1. ↑ http://ping.fm/blog/hey-everyone-open-beta/
  2. ↑ "Ping.fm is 'Open for Business'". http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/pingfm-opens-up.html. Retrieved 2008-09-03. 
  3. ↑ "Status Updating Service Ping.fm Now in Open Beta". http://www.mashable.com/2008/09/02/pingfm-open-beta/. 
  4. ↑ Template:Http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/04/seesmic-acquires-ping-fm/


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