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As social networks seem to get bigger and bigger and new ways of online communication spring up, people get more and more caught up into updating their accounts on various networks.

So wheres there’s a need there’s an application .

As i was talking a few days ago a new service has been borne a few months ago called ping.fm that allows users to update their services all from one place. Well today i stumble upon a class on phpclasses.org called Ping.FM Wrapper that can be used to update multiple social networks using the Ping.FM API.

It accesses the Ping.FM Web services API server and can perform several operations to update social networks of a given user. It can for instance post messages or the user status, retrieve received messages, etc..

I guess this will make the life of developers required to do an application that will update social networks a whole lot easyer.

Cheers

If you are a geek like or you just like to talk a lot online or maybe you jsut like connecting with other people online, maybe people from around the world, well in all of those cases you are likely to have a whole bunch of accounts opened all over the place.

So i guess you have accounts on social networks like myspace or Hi5, or maybe facebook, but as much as you like communicating i bet you opened a twitter account. Well you might not have as much accounts as i do ( ) jk ) but i bet you find it difficult to update all your accounts, and keep them up to date. I have that same problem, it is really time consuming.

Well there is an answer to our prairies and it is called ping.fm.This is a new service that has been in beta for almost 6 months now .. from what i know and has been giving beta codes to register to a limited amount of people, and still is but i managed to get a key .
What it does is that is making your life easier by updating a bunch of services at once from one place … pretty cool huh ?.

And there are a few ways to update as well, beside from the actual website, you can use your IM accounts like AIM, YM, MSN or GTalk, an iPhone or iTouch application and even a regular WAP application.

At the time of this article they had support for :
Bebo, Blogger, Brightkite, Facebook, FriendFeed, hi5, Identi.ca, Jaiku, kwippy, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mashable, MySpace, Plaxo Pulse, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress.com.
I think that is a pretty impressive list, and i bet the it will grow in time.

And i have a good news for the ones that are interested .. i managed to get a beta code for you guys … so use pingadactyl to register … dont know how long it will be valid.

Cheers.