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.

We think Pownce is really cool. So cool in fact that we did some digging around in their (unofficial) API to see if we could add some sort of IM support to the uber anticipated messaging app. Thanks to guys like Kyle Hays, Mike Taylor, and Clint Ecker, who discovered the hidden api and documented its login scheme, we were able to integrate most Pownce features into a new IMified widget. To add the widget just select the “My Account” option in your IMified menu and click the link provided to access the widget directory.

The Pownce widget will let you post messages, links, events, and sends IM notifications of new Pownce messages. Notifications are checked for every 120 seconds. To enable notifications, select the “Toggle Notifications” option in your Pownce menu.

As stated above, this widget was built on the “Unofficial” Pownce api. As far as we can tell the team over at Pownce isn’t restricting access to it, however they’re not encouraging developers to use it. A recent blog entry on the Pownce site says they’re working on an official API, but we just couldn’t wait to release the first Pownce addon (that we know of).

If you’ve got any suggestions for improving the widget, or if it’s just not working for you, let us know in the forums.

BTW, we have some Pownce invites. Leave a comment if you want one. We’re “IMified” on Pownce if your looking for another friend : )