Ping.fm has been the answer to many users’ prayers when looking for a way to keep up with friends on all of the different microblogging platforms that exist today. Essentially, asks for your data on each network and platform you use, then allows you to mass broadcast your status updates or messages across each of the platforms.
Socialthing focuses more on the aggregation side of microblogging and less on the publishing aspect (though it is possible to post replies to certain services from within their application).
Socialthing for Aggregating, Ping.fm for Posting
With the recent integration of Ping.fm into their list of services, now users can watch what is happening on each network with Socialthing AND use Ping.fm to publish messages across all of those places, all from the same window.
The Ping.fm team had backed themselves up against a wall by only allowing users to publish and not to respond to conversations, but partnering with Socialthing is a great step to bring them into the microblogging process full circle.
Check out the Socialthing blog and the Ping.fm blog to see what each had to say about the collaboration between their two products.
Rob is one of the founders of Microblink. His interests include how people are using microblogs and the community growing around them.
Mike writes and edits for Microblink day-in and day-out. He is known as the marketing guy and handles most of the microblogging accounts.
Mark writes development-oriented posts as well as news items. He's not afraid to dive headfirst into technical topics for the sake of the team.