Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, LinkedIn, Flikr, Photobucket, Ning, Xanga, WordPress, …. The list of social media platforms goes on and on.  Some overlap with each other, others have no channels of compatibility, and most of the services that would allow you to synchronize the content of multiple services are annoyingly piecemeal.

Enter Ping.fm.

Ping.fm has compiled a list of 40 blogging sites, social networks, online status recorders, social bookmarking services, and photo sharing sites - each and every one of which can be updated individually or in groups from within the Ping.fm interface.

See a service you don’t yet use?  Ping.fm will walk you through the initial steps of creating your account, and will automatically group it with similar social media services so you can go right on posting as you normally would.

So what’s the down side?  Ping will only send information.  This makes it great for articles, press releases, and other announcements that you will want to go far and wide but means that you will still need to log into each individual service if you want to take part in the two way communication that makes web 2.0 what it is.

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Online Ore is an ongoing feature at The Gold Mine featuring tools and resources from around the web and wider world. If you know a site we should prospect please e-mail Aaron Rubman at Marissa Berger Interactive.