Imified launched their IM-to-productivity tools integration yesterday. Imified enables creating of to-do lists, calendar entries, blog posts and more from your IM. They claim to work with Google Calendar, Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, 30 Boxes, and more. Adding todos, and creating notes on your Imified accounts works fine. However a quick check for integration with GCal and Blogger resulted in nothing getting updated or added anywhere. Don’t want to give out more passwords right now.
Another similar service about which I had written earlier is Spleak. Thinking again, I am not too keen in using IM to create calendar entries, and blog posts. Reasons related to formatting and advanced features aside, I think it is just plain inconvenient to bring up the IM window and start answering questions to get things done. Some of the firefox extensions and services like Stikkit are far more easier to use and get done with the work quicker. If these IM based services can key-map to bring up the chat window, I might consider another try.
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February 5, 2007 at 4:32 pm |
Very interesting service indeed. I’m personally partial to using IM as an interface to a lot of things. With Stikkit, we very deliberately designed it so that you had a single text entry area to create events and todos and such, with the idea that Stikkit should be smart enough to determine what you’re talking about.
Being able to create Stikkits via IM sounds great to me, as I’m usually always connected, and I like the “fire it off and forget it” kind of interface. And I’m guessing it would be trivial to hook Imified up to the newly released Stikkit API.
In any case, the service looks promosing. IM itself helps bridge a gap between devices. Nearly every device I consider important to me can do some form of IM, whether it’s through iChat on my Mac or through some sort of SMS gateway on my mobile phone. I suspect that if the current breed of gaming consoles don’t yet support IM, they will (I’m sorely out of the loop when it comes to the recent wave).
Anyhow, thanks for the compliment on Stikkit!
February 5, 2007 at 10:47 pm |
Thanks for the write up. We understand why you might be wary of sharing login credentials with another site. We’ve taken every precaution to keep your data safe. Our admin pages are all over SSL and we encrypt any information you add to connect to your services.
Michael, we LOVE stikkit and actually have your api at the top of our integration list. We’ll let you know when its ready.
May 14, 2007 at 10:37 pm |
[...] IMified, the service that lets you blog, make notes,….from your IM today announced that it has acquired FeedCrier. FeedCrier was launched last year by Adam Kalsey who was the founder and former CTO of Pheedo, a FeedBurner competitor. FeedCrier delivers RSS feeds over instant messaging platforms. Currently FeedCrier supports AIM, MSN, GTalk/Jabber. Tags: [...]