Surfing, browsing or clicking away on the Web over the course of two decades occasionally reminds of old Web sites or old Web services. One Web service that popped to mind is the first search engine multi-submit services that provided a way for its users to post URLs to many search engines from a single form. Multi-submit services exist today, but there is no need for webmasters to submit URLs to the major search engines since they will find it somehow and index automatically.
Then came blogs and with them the RSS technology that made it possible to automatically ping blog hubs and blog search engines whenever a blog was updated. It was inevitable that multi-ping Web services would arrive such as
Ping-o-Matic that provides its users with a way to ping multiple blog sources, hubs and search engines from a single form.
Now is the era of social media and social networks. Social media has become a marketing media just like Web sites and blogs. Having profiles on multiple social media services, small message mediums and bookmark sites and keeping them up-to-date requires a lot of work. Now social media has a multi-update Web service too,
Ping.fm, that provides their users with a way to post to some of the Web’s most popular social networks from a single point of entry and via mobile phones as well.