One of the cornerstones of modern social networks is the status message, “what are you doing right now,” and other similar examples. Once you join your second network, keeping these updates current is usually a mess of API accesses, or using third party services such as Ping.FM (the recommended approach). Now you can forget about typing your updates, as voice to text purveyors SpinVox announce a new service with Ping.FM to let up to 30 networks know what you're up to.

By calling into the new “Ping Through SpinVox,” you simply speak your activities, and let SpinVox do the translation while Ping.FM will post the update to up to 30 sites, including Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, Identi.ca, MySpace and more. The full ist is currently in graphical form on the front of the Ping.FM website.

I've always joked that the best way to destroy the internet is to set up a feedback loop in the Web 2.0 sites... your Twitter status is sent to Facebook, which sends it to Friendfeed, which sends it to Jaiku, which sends it to Twitter, which is updated and passed to Facebook... I'm half way there with a number of sites looking at other sites to start the domino of messages. Ping.FM clears up that problem, making it easy to maintain presence over multiple spaces. The addition of voice might be seen as nothing but 'cute' by some, but it's actually very useful either at your desk, or especially when out and about.

Existing users to Ping.FM just need to add the SpinVox service, everyone else can sign up for a free Ping.FM account right now.