notify.me blog: Archive

Email/Text is saved, notify.me moving to...

Today is the day we were supposed to terminate email and text notification delivery. After the feedback we received, we decided to see if we could avoid shuttering those parts of the service and I’m happy to report that we decided that we will continue to support email and text delivery. The overall response to the last weeks blog post was that you would rather pay than to have us be forced...

Jul 27th

notify.me removes email/sms delivery and other...

This is our first post in nearly a year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, but didn’t have anything that had a visible impact on our users. If you do not care about the last years of events skip down to the last couple paragraphs to find out what changes we are making to notify.me service. A bit of history. From May of 2009 we put notify.me on autopilot and started working on...

Jul 16th

notify.me API release

We got a little too excited about our C# library, we announced it before we annouced our API release … so without further adieu, here’s the announcement for our API release: notify.me is releasing the first phase of our developer API. The API enables content publishers to deliver notifications into a notify.me customer’s notification stream. In doing so content publishers can...

Jun 5th

Post real time notifications with C#

We’re quite excited to announce the release of the first version of the notify.me API C# library. With this release it should be a snap for C# developers to integrate with our service to deliver real time notifications. We’re just getting warmed up on the API front, we really think this is the way to go and allows for tons of creative applications to be built on top of our platform....

Jun 5th

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notify.me toolbar update & seesmic integration...

So, the notify.me toolbar has been live for a couple of weeks now, and it’s made some waves, some people dig it as evidenced at hyveup.tv and others .. well, let’s just say weren’t too fond of it. Thanks for you input, we’ve listened and we thought we’d share our vision of the tool bar and let you know how to zap the toolbar if you find it to be pesky. Also, read on...

Jun 2nd

Massive notify.me release + Ping.fm support

We’ve been working on some tasty new features over the past couple of months at notify.me, and we’ve just released a few to whet your appetite. First off, we’ve been paying close attention to all your feedback posted on our forum over at http://getsatisfaction.com/notifyme, ton’s of fixes have been made, here are some feature requests that we’ve deployed (keep the...

Apr 9th

notify.me releases cross platform desktop...

After a two week soft-launch I would like to announce the initial public release of the notify.me desktop application. Please note this is an early release of the desktop application, we’ve built in an auto update feature that will check for updates every time you relaunch the application. Also, we’re really excited about the ninja mode notification feature which allows you to...

Jan 21st

Release 23 - Alltop integration, Bug Fixes, and...

We’ve released a couple of big features and responded to numerous bugs: Our largest new feature is our alltop.com integration. notify.me makes use of alltop.com’s excellent feed directory to make it easier for people to add topics they are interested in. If you like to cook but don’t know of any sites/feeds to add. Just go to our source topic page and click on...

Dec 8th

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Welcome Lifehacker, Delicious and other users

It’s great to see so many new users. I hope you find our service useful. Please let us know about things that work and things that don’t via our customer service tool. We really try to address issues right away. notify.me recently moved to a tinyurl like link in notifications. This will allow us to add notification links to sms, which was a big complaint. However, other people...

Nov 14th

Watch

The fine folks at New Media Rights have turned our amateur tech video into a professional class production. They took the source video and a few days later we had this masterpiece. All of us at notify.me are grateful for the hard work New Media Rights has done. Thanks!

Nov 12th

Behind the scenes tech preview at High Scalability

Yesterday highscalability posted a great article about our technology. If you are interested in how this all works and how it is possible to get notifications so quickly, check it out.

Oct 30th

Release G - Feed Filtering and Duplicate...

Two big things to talk about for release G. First, we’ve completed the much requested filtering feature. User can now add a feed and filter their notifications based on keywords. Maybe you love using techbargains to find those killer deals. But you’re only shopping for monitors and are hesitant to add techbargains because of the sheer daily onslaught of notifications. Fear no...

Oct 10th

Release F - UI cleanup, wiki integration and bug...

We’ve just released revision F of notify.me GetSatisfaction has done a great job of handling our customer service issues. We read new comments and issues and try to respond within a day. And typically we can get a fix out by our next release. Please keep using the GetSatisfaction as a way to tell us what you like and don’t like about the service. Our notify.me wiki is now open for...

Oct 1st

Release E.2 - revised tutorial, getsatisfaction,...

We released notify.me with the second version of release E last night: Updated the tutorial and moving the branding to ‘Account Setup’. Looks like everyone likes to skip tutorials. We still have a couple more pages to fix up. Keep your feedback coming in. Added a getsatisfaction page so we can handle customer issues. We already have a bunch of feedback. Check it out at...

Sep 25th

Release E - bookmarklet, revised tutorial, feed...

We have just released a new version of notify.me (Release E). We are staying up with our weekly release strategy and so far things are moving along nicely. notify.me will open its invitation beta hopefully within two-three releases. The first 1000 users on the interest list will automatically receive invites. Each current member will initially receive up to 5 invites depending on how actively...

Sep 16th

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Iteration 5 - notify.me takes its first breath →

Iteration 5 went out a couple days ago and it was a big one. We completed the transition from http://www.getnotifyd.com to http://notify.me so everyone will have a much easier domain name to remember. Another big feature is the we now support delivering notifications to your mobile phone and email. We’ve also given the site a complete facelift. Take a look and let me know what you...

Sep 7th