As you well know by now, Seesmic has reached out and picked up Ping.fm, which integrates with some fifty social networks. Seesmic of course is noted for being integrated with seemingly every platform that is popular.
Take the two of them together and you have an application that works everywhere, and updates everything. You can’t call it a hat trick as it lacks an element of the triplicate, but it sure does seem to be a home run at least.
Seesmic has been trying to make inroads on the dominant Tweetdeck for some time, but had lacked a feature capability that would give it sufficient edge to lure happy Tweetdeck users over the fence. Well, it has one now: massive connectivity. As soon as Seesmic turns on the power of Ping.fm inside of its many applications, it will open a can of pain unless Tweetdeck can catch up in the interim.
Tweetdeck integrates with the “big four,” Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace. Add fifty and you will get Seesmic’s coming total.
As a last comment, now that Seesmic is taking the technology high-road, they are most likely entering into play for any large internet corporation to purhcase. FriendFeed, always a bit player to Twitter’s traffic, was snapped up for $50 million. Seesmic, with Ping.fm built in, combined with their second place userbase could be in a similar position for purchase. Push hard in technology, and you will always have value.
Also, given that Loic (Seesmic’s CEO) introduced one of their most recent applications, Seesmic for Windows, at the Microsoft PDC conference, Microsoft might be a potential suitor. Who knows? We have no hard rumors to report at the moment.
Seesmic is on the offensive and is determined to be a technology leader in its space. May the social status wars continue, as a user I could not be more happy.
I still like TweetDeck the best regardless of what anyone says. I do love Ping.fm, but from an overall customer perspective, I still notice the majority of users are using the TweetDeck client.
Tweetdeck still has it for me. For these reasons
a) I prefer the UI
b) I don’t need integration with 50 sites. I focus on twitter, facebook, linked in. I do use flickr too but that’s a tad more specialist (at least for me, due to the high-quality photo content)
c) I use the 3 different “main” sites for different communities/purposes, I don’t want/expect them to be tightly linked. loose cross references is intentional, otherwise it’s information overload for everyone!
I really dislike the Seesmic Desktop and web UI. I’m hoping for a refresh of the interface…maybe then I’ll make the jump.
the only way i’ll make the jump is if seesmic shuts down ping.fm. if they do then my marketing strategy would require that i make the leap. that is of course if tweetdeck doesn’t acquire hellotxt.
I love Seesmic and admire the approach to building a product within a thriving, passionate community of users (Team Seesmic)Loic deploys. But Hootsuite has had ping.fm hooked up for ages and for me, currently has a better UI.
I wonder, does this mean I will be able to manage all of my Social Media sites using Seesmic alone?
I think that Seesmic is moving in a good direction. This is opinion based off of recent news. Positive tone is my own. The news stoy: “Seesmic buys Ping.fm.” My take: “Makes Seesmic very powerful and will help it take on Tweetdeck.”
Not sure how that got so distorted in the telling.
Not a big deal…sorry
While its important to report on the improvements of each social tool, I don’t see Seesmic’s integration of Ping as being that big of a deal. I can’t count on my hands and toes how many apps do exactly what Seesmic does AND integrate Ping. I use Twaitter (Ping soon), and Hootsuite (ping now).
Steven
No offense, but this sounds like an advertisement or endorsement rather than a news story.
Yep, myself included.
Because ping.fm isn’t integrated into seesmic yet. When it is you will see a massive swap.
Fair enough! Then I doubt that Seesmic will be of great use to you, except its web client on a friends computer.