IM As UI
I am writing this from my IM client of choice (AdiumX) using a new service called IMified. Regular readers of this blog will know that I recently got back into some coding with SLIMBot — a package that lets you create commands you can invoke via an IM interface using the ColdFusion Event Gateway services. IMified is sort of like SLIMBot on steroids — or, at least, it’s something you could build most of using SLIMBot. OK, so it’s not really that related other than that they both are about IM as a user interface. IMified has built out a system that interfaces with a number of common web-based services and other things that have remote access (like WordPress — which is the IMified service I am using to write this). At first I didn’t like IMified’s menu-based approach, but when I found out they allow custom shortcuts to common commands I was sold — this looks like it could finally be the IM service that fills the gaping void in my workflow created when IMSmarter died.