IM Feeds: Blog

The past month we’ve gotten some attention from various news sites/ blogs, and we thought we’d share them here in case you aren’t using IM Feeds yet and would like to learn more about it.

MakeUseOf

All in all, I really like this service because there are a ton of different uses for it. If you already have a lot of feeds (like me) but don’t want to have to check your reader for the latest stuff, it makes for a good snapshot of “right now.”

ReadWriteWeb

All in all, IM Feeds does the job it was meant to do. When adding a feed, you won’t immediately receive any updates. However, once they started rolling in I saw them in my instant messenger before seeing them in Google Reader.

Startup Meme

If you’re sick of getting updates by manually refreshing websites, then you should give IM Feeds a chance.

Let us know if you’ve written something about IM Feeds and we’ll be sure to add you to the above list!

IM Feeds Team

When launching IM Feeds, our goal was to get a moderate amount of attention to see how our systems are holding up and get some better statistics about bottlenecks/ performance issues. And thanks to social media it’s never been easier to get your name out and start getting early adopters! Digg, Reddit and Slashdot were the mediums of choice to get the ball rolling, and after only a few submissions other people started picking it up and posting it on their blogs and spreading it through social bookmarking sites. Much to our surprise, the biggest traffic source ended up coming from Stumble Upon, followed by a variety of blogs and Twitter users that found out about IM Feeds through KillerStartups.

To track our news coverage, we used Google Analytics for identifying website/ blog referrals, while Summize was used to stay on-top of Twitter traffic. The biggest surprise that came out of this analysis though was how fast information travels around the world. Some of our currently most active users are from China, India, Paraguay and many other non-English speaking countries. And thanks to this revelation we’re making internationalization a priority for our next release, alongside making it even easier to add and manage RSS alerts.

Hope this provides a slight glimpse into the world of free social media advertising!

IM Feeds Team

PS: Here are just a few of the various, diverse websites/ blogs/ twitters that have mentioned IM Feeds recently:

• MiBlackBerry
• THWS (Chinese)
• GenBeta
• Social Media (Japanese)
• http://twitter.com/webleon
• http://twitter.com/bgtasoft