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Do you want to stay connected with latest news updates from your favorite sources? Would you like to receive feed alerts and updates via instant messenger or over SMS? If the answer is yes to either of those questions you…

Czytnikó RSS jest wiele, ale w zasadzie każdy z nich ma bardzo prozaiczną wadę. Kilka dni bez komputera i już tracimy bieżące informacje. Dlatego sam korzystam z czytnika Squeet, który monitoruje kanały i przesyła wiadomości e-mailem. Do teg…

Check out MSN Alerts - it does IM, SMS and email.

Small nitpick: a bit of research shows that Microsoft bought MessageCast a while ago, which they rebranded MSN Alerts.

http://signup-b.alerts.msn.com/brochure/index.jsp

It’s basically RSS to IM, email, and mobile devices. I don’t use it (don’t use MSN messenger, and have found there to be a time lag problem) but the core service is the same as the companies mentioned. It’s also fairly important to be aware when a Big 3 company has a similar/identical service. Not only does it limit the acquisition options, but it makes it considerably harder to get funding for that category of companies.

Every once in awhile there’s a really simple idea that comes along and you just know is going to be huge. Not like the next MySpace huge, but you know it will work. Feed Crier is that idea and it’s a mashup of instant messaging and an RSS …

Then all these startups are like what extensions are to firefox - developers will innovate and add various extensions of these social concepts. My thinking comes from the fact that most of thes startups are duplicatng lot of stuff in the name of innovation. I can develop delicious framework in a month or so with couple of developers, not a problem.It is that easy, I am not exaggerating. It does not mean I start a new startup. It is unncessarily giving the hope to new startups that there is a market there and money to be made.

The dynamic and shared nature of web apps these days is what has been driving innovation in the area, in my opinion. One company can’t release all the innovations we need because there is just way too much to do. And once a company becomes big enough to have enough devs to implement all the sweet features we need, it no doubt is suffering from Big Useless Company Syndrome.

The compromise we have settled on is open standards like RSS and open APIs for interoperation. I don’t think we could be as successful any other way.

With regards to bridging the gap between RSS, IM, SMS and e-mail… You have to give the crown to Rasasa, it works great.

Good to see competition in this space.

Do you want to relaunch IMSmarter with me?

-david

It is crazy, why do we need to have a company for every small feature, why do we try create a spacename for every group of features.

If Microsoft WORD were to be developed in these bubbly days, it would have been like this.

#1.Microsoft WORD will have very basic features like file open, edit and save.

#2.Then there will emerge a startup called Importr ,all it would do is File->Import and File->Export functionality for WORD.

#3.Then there will be another startup Tackr for Tools->Track Changes functionality.

#4.There will be dozen other startups like Formattr, Footr etc. you get the point.

#5.Then a website WordCrunch will showup and profiles these companies with great buzz

#6.Soon there will be tens of startups surface, in each of these categories doing more or less same.They do it because it is easy to do and costs less moreover VC’s would throw some easy money.

Phew, I am glad WORD was not developed this way It is ridiculous to see each enhancement in product cycle is a company by itself.

I see a huge opportunity for a big firm like Google or yahoo or new one — to come up as a web platform — they will provie and host the 2.0 framework - configurable data model, 2.0 screen templates, socialing data objects, rss’ing the data objects - and then you configure them (screens,data model and social objects) and you have a site like 30boxes in short period of time. basically most of the existing 2.0 startups can be developed this way, otherwise there is lot of duplicate efforts.

Sorry for the long post but I am sure I am making sense to lot of people here.

Over the weekend Adam Kalsey announced his new service, Feed Crier. Feed Crier pushes RSS/ATOM feeds though AIM (other IM networks are reported to be supported later). Subscribing to a feed is as simple as IM’ing feedcrier with ’subscribe…

As you noted, other IM services are coming soon. There’s also other non-IM notification options coming. A couple of unique things that bear mentioning… Feed Crier doesn’t require an account to use — just subscribe by sending an IM and you’re in. And Pro users get feed summaries in addition to a title and a link.

Feel free to contact me for more information or assistance but (how else?) IM. AIM screenname is akalsey.