When we heard yesterday that FriendFeed had released their API we figured we’d go ahead and offer some IM integration right away. We’ve created a Jabber/Gtalk IM bot for posting entries to your friendfeed stream. It supports posting links and messages for now. Add friendfeed@imified.com friendfeed@bot.im to your jabber/gtalk buddy list and send it a message to try it out. Send “help” to the bot to see how it works.
We held off on offering IM alerts of updates and comments because we want to hear from you on how you’d like to see them work. Do you want alerts of all activity? Alerts only from certain friends? Alerts from certain services? Please let us know and we’ll follow your lead.

The friendfeed IM bot was created in just an hour or so using the IMified API. If you’d like to create your own friendfeed bot or a bot for your web site or personal use, head over to the developers page and request a beta invite. Our API makes it ridiculously simple to integrate IM in your applications. We’re really close to leaving beta and launching our new developers site that will include instant bot setup, usage reporting, and external network integration with AIM, MSN, and Yahoo.

Earlier today during some routine DB upgrades we ran across a MySQL bug that took the bots offline for several hours.  No data was lost due to the outage, the core IMified bots were brought back online, and they seem to be behaving very well again.  Now it is me who needs a little nap.