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I’ve been looking for a good way to “jabberify” some of my online tools. Since any Web 2.0 application worth the name has an open API, I figured it must be possible to talk XMPP to them. I wanted to get to my calendar info, online bookmarks, TODO notes and perhaps even to Gmail via just a standard Jabber client and was looking for a bot that would do it for me - if something is hackable, someone must have hacked it!

The IMified buddy adding an important task to my RTM list

Well, turns out that now someone has! I found about IMified, an instant message buddy that will connect you to Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, Blogger and a number of other services, plus offers a simple notes list, todos, and reminders on its own too. I’ve played with it a little, and it works rather well after the initial unstability (the service was launched just four days ago.) You can add the buddy to most of the popular IM services but we Ubuntu users of course only use Jabber since we like our freedom :)

The interface is nice, and works great on my mobile phone too since IMified doesn’t hit my screen with too much verbosity. Yet it always providies clear instructions, I haven’t been lost once. Google Calendar has some timezone problems, and the Remember the Milk functionality could be more advanced (and no, you don’t get mail notifications), but IMified certainly has my support - I won’t be studying XMPP on my own any time soon :)

Done!

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