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A few weeks ago AOL promoted the Feed Crier AIM bot to a special status on their network. The idea behind it was to create better service for our users, and in particular make it easier for new users to sign up for Feed Crier. Unfortunately, there’s been a few glitches in the process. For […]

The AIM bot is behaving strangely right now. Looks like something’s going on over at AOL. The bot is always appearing online, even when we attempt to bring it offline. And it is always replying with a message about being too busy to handle requests — a message that we didn’t create. We’ve notified AOL of […]

For the last couple of months, we’ve been talking to IMified, sharing war stories, and helping them out with some ideas on how best to manage the signed on bot portion of the service. The more we’ve talked, the more we’ve liked each other. We started exploring ways we could partner and work together, with […]

Last week, Feed Crier reached a new milestone: one million alerts delivered since our launch last fall. We’re adding new users at an increasing rate, and have some interesting things coming on the horizon.

A new feature is being tested in Feed Crier. Tell Feed Crier “off” and it will pause your alerts until you tell it “on.” Any alerts you received while it was paused will be delivered when you turn it back on. Nice and simple. The commands don’t show up in the help file yet, so telling […]

We just added a feed of the top feeds. Quick, everyone go subscribe to the feed at once so that the Feed Crier Top Feeds feed will be on the Top Feeds list and appear in the Top Feeds Feed. It’s also available in OPML, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Back in October, we listed the top feeds that Feed Crier was tracking. We intended to make that a monthly thing — we’d tally up the top feeds every month and post it here to the blog. We’ve discovered some interesting things from this process — mainly that we really suck at regularly scheduled blog […]

With the Twitterbot down, are you missing your instant message stream of your friends looking for their socks? You know, you can subscribe to your friend’s timelines with RSS, and that means you can bypass the twitterbot and use Feed Crier. Subscribe to http://twitterusername:twitterpassword@twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss with Feed Crier and renew your IM client’s love afair with Twitter. PS. […]

update Mar 16 5:30pm The bot has been back up for an hour and is looking stable. It appears that at least some of the MSN Messenger login servers are offline. This means that Feed Crier’s bot can’t log in, and from what I can tell, most other people can’t log in either. We’re monitoring […]

update Mar16 9am The AIM bot is back online. The AIM bot isn’t working right now. Jabber and MSN are fine, and we’re working on troubleshooting the problem. To use either the MSN bot or the Jabber bot, add feedcrier@feedcrier.com to your buddy list.