So I thought I’d take a stab at using ping.fm to update my Twitter, LinkedIn, del.icio.us, GTalk and Facebook acounts when I post a new blog entry.  I imagine I’ll need to hack my wp-mail.php like I did with TwitterUpdater so that I can still blog from my BlackBerry and have the updates ripple out.

I tested their service from within their own interface and it didn’t update del.icio.us and LinkedIn took about 10 minutes or so to update.  We’ll have to see if it’s working fine from this basic blog post entry.

BuddyPress is a very interesting plugin for WP MU (actually it is a collection of plugins) that provide profiles, friends, forums, private messaging, activity streams, and of course blogs.  It currently lacks photo albums and other multimedia features.  I think once these features are added this will be a very versatile alternative to other social engines.