Today’s wicked cool site – ping.fm

I posted on my Plurk I wished for an easier way to update my status on social sites such as Facebook , Twitter and Plurk . The answer I got was Ping.fm . It is a closed beta, but the code is pingyoulater to get it.

It’s wicked cool, easy and just works. It also interfaces to 17 different sites, I only use 4 of them.

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