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I don't get Seesmic Ping

I love Seesmic. I use their web interface every day. Their Android app is still wonderful, despite being wholly ignored by the company since Summer 2011. Seesmic Ping is an app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that lets you schedule updates to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, including attachments.

It sounded intriguing at first. After all, the Seesmic team has done some amazing work. But the truth is: Ping is basically an entire app that consists of a single feature from a solution--Seesmic for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone--that already does what Ping does.

Okay, so Seesmic never scheduled from mobile before, so I guess that's an improvement. I schedule a lot of tweets, but I'm always at my computer, on Seesmic Web or Tweetdeck for Chrome. I suppose there's a market out there for folks who often need to schedule from the road (is there?), I'm just not one of them.

The downside is that this will eventually become a paid service, according to the company's blog post about it. They promise more services, posting by email, and some other features once the product is out of beta. But would you pay for something that update social networks if it can't read them as well?

Update: Seesmic for Android just got an update this morning. Nothing earth-shattering, but Trending Topics is fixed, it now supports t.co links, and they have removed Google Buzz support. There are also apparently lots of bugfixes. I'm installing the update now.