May 14th, 2007

Mini Merger: Imified Acquires FeedCrier

Imified, makers an IM interface for some common productivity tools, just acquired FeedCrier, makers of an IM based RSS feed alert system. The two startups talk about the deal on their blogs (Imified, FeedCrier), but shy away from the terms of the deal. Imified plans on integrating the RSS alerts to its current list of IM services, calling them “Imified Alerts”. Users will also be able… → Read More

August 20th, 2006

FeedCrier, another way to act fast with RSS and IM

Adam Kalsey, a founder and former CTO of RSS vendor Pheedo, released a new service last night called FeedCrier that makes it easy to receive rapid notification of new items in an RSS feed by IM. The service currently supports only AIM but Kalsey says that will change soon. Free accounts are limited, but premium subscribers can monitor an unlimited number of feeds, remove ads in the alerts, use a… → Read More