imified
http://www.imified.com/developers/index.cfm
this is a really cool platform, and i think opens a lot of opportunities to develop less invasive apps. imified’s developer api allows you to hook up an IM client to your applicatihttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifon. it effectively provides command line support to your web application, so rather than having to fire up a web-browser, you can fire off a couple of lines of text into your IM client (which is of course always open and online). Think “what am i doing today?” to get back all your outlook appointments today. Think “get my bugs” to return a list of open bugs from mantis. Think “where is alex” to get his currently location from the GPS we installed in his head. Unfortunately, there is cost associated to this, so playing around with the concept is less than welcoming, but i think its a really very nifty idea (and negates the work i did trying to get a gtalk app running in php :)
