On the Fly

Derek, who runs the amazing 5thirtyone.com has been talking about IMified for some time now, and I finally decided to give it a whirl. IMified is a chat buddy — something that isn’t immediately clear on the home page — that you add to your IM service of choice, and it basically gives you command line-like access into a number of features. Notes, reminders and to-dos are built in, but blogging and even Twitter posting can be enabled. This post, in fact, was written inside IMified (and explains the lack of line breaks, since I’m still learning the system). It’s an awesome little system, you don’t need a password at all (since that’s all managed through your IM service) and you can get up and running using it in a matter of seconds. Very nice.