Introducing IM Widgets and the IMified API
The posts here have been a bit slow mostly because we’ve been working really hard to publish the first version of the IMified API. With the new API also comes the introduction of what we call IM widgets. IM widgets are services that can be interacted with and added to your IMified menu and can now be developed by anyone, in any language. Check out the API docs and give it a whirl. We can’t wait to see what kind of stuff you guys come up with. We feel like an API was the next logical step for IMified. It’s a lot of fun seeking out and integrated services, but there’s just so much we can do in a day. Our hope is that application owners will embrace our api and build widgets that their users can interact with on IMified. So, if you’d like to see your favorite app on IMified, send them a link to our API and tell them to get crackin.
Our first public widget written on the api was created by the awesome url shortening site urlTea.com. We’ve also added a new Jaiku widget to the gallery that lets you post updates to your Jaiku account. We’re working on building in Jaiku updates as well, so you can receive updates from your contacts as well as comments from any of your Jaiku posts.
Thanks to all for your patience while we continue to do our best to scale our bots and squash some of the bugs in our widgets. Please visit the forums for help creating your widgets or to just say hi. You can also always send us an email at imified@imified.com.. we’d love to hear from you.
April 11th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I’m trying to sign up really I am but the little things keep getting in the way - like imified2@gmail.com (via jabber and gtalk) both return errors when trying to add them. I also tried to sign up to the forums to submit a bug report but your captcha image is so unfriendly to my color blind eyes that I don’t even *see* 6 letters or digits to even begin to guess what they should be.
Your service seems nice but so far it’s a failure even before I’ve gotten to the address let alone gotten thru the door.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:35 am
@bear - Sorry your having trouble getting setup. We haven’t heard of any users receiving an error when adding the imified2 screen name to their buddy list. Can you let us know what errror your getting?
We know the forum is an issue. It was the easiest and fastest solution at the time.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:03 am
I also tried using Google talk to communicate with imified2@gmail.com. I don’t get an error, but it says that imified2@gmail.com is “offline” and there’s no way for me to chat with it.
April 13th, 2007 at 6:26 am
@brent,bear
We’re asking that Jabber/Gtalk users use the new imified@imified.com screen name to interact with IMified. Much more stable.
April 26th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
[...] you can also do it with IM by adding teabot@urltea.com to your contacts or alternatively you can use it with IMified. You can also post to Twitter by IM using IMified, handy when Twitter IM is down. [...]
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Its great. Using this api i made a form to mobile email address, So using this i can send sms from gtalk, Thanks u very much