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mystatus.im up for renewal – anyone want it?

Posted on Sunday, May 11th, 2008 at 11:59am. #

A while back – well, actually, a year back – I bought a domain-name, mystatus.im, to go with a little project I was working on at the time. The project was to automatically sync your instant-messaging ’status’ from Facebook to Twitter, Pownce, Jabber, etc etc. It was quite a good idea, and while some have got a little of the way there, I don’t believe that a decent “my status” sync has really been done yet.

There was some shonky code on there for a while which did the Facebook->Twitter bit, but I retired that a short while ago, since the Twittersync app on Facebook does just a good a job the other way around.

mystatus.im runs out on 25th May. I’ve had expiring domain-names swiped by get-rich-quick merchants (mediauk.co.uk cost me a considerable sum to get back, though there’s a back-story here, since mediauk.co.uk had been out of my reach since 2001), so if there is anyone out there who can see a use for mystatus.im, please do get in touch. (I’m not planning on making a load of cash, and am more interested in a good coder doing a good piece of code).

.im is in the Isle of Man, by the way – a great TLD for instant-messaging type stuff, I think.

Also up for renewal is the instantly-usable UKDIGITALRADIOMEDIAONAIRTODAYSPY.COM (no, really) which I bought as a gag a year ago after it was published in The Radio Magazine. You don’t want that one? Oh.

Photo: Simen Svale Skogsrud. Used under licence.

3 comments

Alistair MacDonald said at May 12th, 2008 at 9:55am

I created a posting application for myself that updates Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku and now Pownce. The problem is that to make it in to a usable application for others on the net, and then to support that application all takes time, and sadly it is time I do not have. :-(

If someone wants to take on the challenge then I am happy to help out by supplying much of the back end code, just not much time. ( http://www.agm.me.uk/contact if you are interested ).

almost witty said at May 12th, 2008 at 1:04pm

I’ve registered a few domains for a couple of ideas I had about birthdays and synchronising just-enough contact data, but unfortunately I don’t have the elite coding skillz required. Can anyone else help? :)

(There could be a whole new website in this … findacoder.com or something!)

Dave Cridland said at May 13th, 2008 at 1:45pm

Actually, I wouldn’t mind tinkering with presence/status synchronization as part of some relatively weird XMPP stuff I’ve been looking into recently.

I’ve probably got a few friends and others I know who’d be in to taking on this project, and running with Alistair’s code, too.

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