The company Seesmic has become rather popular as of late, with a lot of that support thanks to its well-developed Twitter client of the same name. Today, the company announced it is purchasing Ping.fm, a service used to update all of your social networks at the same time.
The announcement, made earlier on Seesmic's blog, outlined their reasoning behind the purchase; the company stated that it "want[s] to help you stay in touch with [your friends] anytime and from any device," and that acquiring Ping.fm would definitely help speed that process up. Ping.fm's co-founders, Adam Duffy and Sean McCullough, will be joining Seesmic's team, bringing a range of shareholders and advisors with them. According to Mashable, Seesmic plans to update all of its clients with Ping.fm support by the end of January, bringing all of the popular features to each version of the software. Founder of Seesmic, Loïc Le Meur, posted a video interview on YouTube with Ping.fm's co-founders, which we have included below.
If you're both a Ping.fm and Seesmic user, this announcement will be a very welcome one, although if you aren't, this might give you the opportunity to try out a new service which you haven't before. Look out for updates for Seesmic's applications later in the month. For a list of social networks you can update simultaneously, have a look at Ping.fm's list.
2 Comments - Add comment