I’m All Web 2.0 Now

I’m typing this from Adium, a Mac instant messenger client. If wishes were horses, we’d not only be eating steak, but we’d be able to control anything from our instant messenger client.

I’ve recently discovered IMified, a service where you add IMified’s bot to your buddy list (AIM: IMified, GTalk and MSN: imified@imified.com). It is a productivity tool that offers instant access to a growing number of web applications over your instant messaging client. Imified simply helps you get things done faster. I edited my account after adding the bot to my buddy list and found 3 amazing “widgets”:
Twitter Updater and Notifier (I haven’t gotten a new Tweet from anyone to test the Notifier)
Remember The Milk (Add and view your Remember The Milk TODO list. Doesn’t seem to notify you of overdue stuff though.)
And finally, the widget I’m using now: WordPress (Need an explanation?).

I’m a console/terminal person. I like typing commands. Thus, I wish to control everything that sends and receives plaintext with my IM client. Here’s what IMified needs to be nearly perfect:
An IMAP client: Send and receive emails from an IMAP account. “Import” your contact list.
PhpBB posting (and/or other Forum software): Read and post topics. Manage your PMs
WordPress: Yes, there already is one, but I need to be able to select categories, and edit and delete posts.

That’s about all I can think of right now. I’ll edit this post in a web browser (grr :P) when I think of more.

Web Browser Edit:
Now about the Web 2.0 part of the title of this post. When I signed up to Facebook, I loved the status blurb you can write about yourself. But I didn’t want to have to log in, click a link and edit my status (I dual-boot and thus reboot frequently) so when I discovered Twitter, I found the perfect status/mini-blog updater. I searched Facebook for a Twitter App and found one that updates my Facebook status from my latest Twitter post. Shortly after, I discovered IMified. I added the Twitter widget, and discovered I had an status update system that works like this:
MSN –> IMified –> Twitter –> Facebook. One API after another. That’s the only thing about Web 2.0 I’ve ever been excited about.