FeedCrier, RSS via IM

Here is an idea I was discussing with someone recently, get my updates of my favourite sites via instant messenger. Well, FeedCrier appears to be such a service.

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 web interface to manage their alerts. Unlike other similar services FeedCrier also delivers item summaries and alerts received when users were offline. Premium accounts are $4 per month. There are other services available that are better for this in some ways, but there’s plenty of room for competition.

It will be interesting to see if people will be interested in paying anything for such a service, and if there is a large niche of people that want site updates via IM.

Source: TechCrunch

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