This recently sent to Seesmic users:

“We’re happy to share with you very big news if you have not heard. We’ve acquired Ping.fm. Get ready to update 50 social networks from Seesmic – and we’d love to hear your feedback on what features we can add to improve Ping.fm.  Your friends are not all in one social network, but we want to help you stay in touch with them anytime and from any device. That is Seesmic’s vision and to deliver this faster, we have acquired Ping.fm. You can now update 50 social networks using Seesmic+Ping.fm from email, chat, sms, Blackberry, Android, web, Windows, OSX and much more soon.”  -Seesmic member email

This was a nice move and pretty cool that it wasn’t Google or a big conglomerate this time.  Refreshing.  It’s certainly good news that Yahoo didn’t buy Ping.FM as we know what they’d do with it eventually.  (Yahoo closed the doors on MyBlogLog this month after spending $10 million on the property, doing nothing with it.)

More from Seesmic:

“Ping.fm has more than half a million active users who post daily from any device just by sending an email, a text message or chat – simple tools that existed since the early stages of the Internet are available on all connected devices. This is why Ping.fm is extremely easy to use and access -just send an update and it can touch on 50 social networks including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Ning, WordPress, TypePad, Yammer, Status.net and many more. Ping.fm is compatible with every single Internet device in the world, which is why it has become so successful among thousands of users.”  -Seesmic member email

Related articles…

• Seesmic to be your one-stop Social Media client (inquisitr.com)
• Seesmic’s Acquistion of Ping.fm Secures Future Goals (crenk.com)
• Seesmic Acquires Ping.fm (mashable.com)