I’ve been a twitter fan for a few months but with friends on such a variety of social sites it’s been a challenge to keep some form of status on the disparate services. Ping.fm has found and filled that niche by pinging a huge number of social networks and blogs too all at once, radio style.

It’s lacking an awesome client / firefox plugin. (I’ve been a twitterfox fan since day one). With an API already published I’m sure there is a twitterfox and twitterberry clone (google pingberry ) (spammers registered pingfox )

The biggest advantage however is the IM client. Twitters has been borked for months and only supported googles jabber thingie and nearly everyone I know are on the other three big networks. Ping.fm’s yahoo IM integration was the deal clincher as thats what I use on my Blackberry.

Use the ping.fm beta signup code “vivalaping” to try it out for yourself.

ReJaw is looking cool too, the way they include media in status updates I’m sure will be a very useful feature.