IMified acquires Feedcrier and intensifies focus on IM May 15th, 2007
I spoke a bit about IMified and the shift to IM (instant messaging) as a communications focal point in chilipod episode 6. Well, IMified has just acquired Feedcrier which translates RSS into IM. According to TechCrunch:
Imified plans on integrating the RSS alerts to its current list of IM services, calling them “Imified Alerts”. Users will also be able to get updates through IM enabled phones and Imified’s widget.
Mashable points out that IMified’s strategy is focussed on more mobile, presence-based applications which is where this whole thing becomes a lot more exciting because, aside from RSS alerts being delivered to your IM client, “they’ll be focused on presence-based alerts that can be forwarded to your mobile phone via sms”.
The IMified blog post about the acquisition speaks a little more about the direction IMified will be taking:
Through this acquisition, IMified will make use of Feedcrier’s rock solid bot platform and super-fast feed alerting technology to offer a complete IM based solution for interacting with web services and presence based alerting. While we’re still working out our integration strategy, I can tell you that we’ve got some really cool features coming down the road. Besides the obvious ability for users to subscribe to real-time feed alerts, developers will be able to use our new API to push alerts to widget subscribers. With this new alert platform, we plan on offering presence-based alerts that will have the option of being forwarded to your mobile phone via sms. Speaking of mobile phones, we’re working on HTTP enabling your IMified menu so you can interact with IMified on your mobile browser.
IM’s reach is extending from your desktop and your laptop to your mobile device and while this is already quite something, when you consider how many services are starting to focus on presence (like IMified and Jaiku, for example) the mobile space is going to become pretty dynamic. Of course the excitement builds even more when you toss in GPS functionality like the kind you find in the new Nokia N95 …
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