Notify.me Real Time as Service

In the current trend, a real-time layer of functionality to consumer websites and businesses can be the top attraction for online environments. Clearly, the real-time game will speed up the infrastructure. The real time information sharing on a user’s experience of a website can have a long lasting effect (take Twitter for  an e.g. of the expression - real term). One of the latest service into the real time market is Notify.me. The service has rolled out two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that will enable the publishers to provide sophisticated real time notification of events to their readers and interface designers, in order to extracts notices as they become online.  The company is striving to set its foot in medial industry, in addition to financial, shipping, and software businesses.

For the time being, Notify.me is offering the APIs for free.  However, the company hopes to generate enough consumer demand to demonstrate scalability and acquire business customers.

With the growing demand for developing websites real time is the hottest trend online this season. What’s more all trendmakers from Facebook to Google, Twitter, Digg as well as many other little innovative startups are giving it a serious look. Some of the sites may even choose external services for a real time infrastructure instead of building their own service. This is where services like Notify.me  will come to play.

The San Diego based startup is an effort by the tech industry veterans. The company includes engineers from companies like MP3.com, the Health Care division of SAIC, Napster, DekiWiki and Yahoo who are working full time or partly without any remunerations. It’s an aggregation of techno wizards working on a long shot to device a technology like real-time.

Two New APIs

Currently, the users can only avail the REST API. The C# and Perl libraries are expected to arrive within two weeks. With the new API publishers would be able to define the particular events on their site. Then they offer real time alerts to readers on the  occurrence of the events. There can be different faces to real time notification. Suppose you need a real time notification when someone leaves a comment in reply to yours. Further, you might require a notification when a sie publishes news about a particular topic, or when the new event listing is published so that you can get the tickets right away.

The second API is a combined Actionscript and XMPP Client API which allows the developers to build the interfaces for audiences to consume real time alerts. Although there are speculations with API, the company expects to introduce changes before the final launch.

These two APIs combines to form the publishing and reading apps going in real time. This clearly suggests the Notify.me would allow the users to add real time noification consumption to apps on your iPhone (Push Notification Service in new iPhone OS), desktop or on the web.

Conclusion

The bottomline is that it is not another fly-by-night “instant alerts” service that most of the novice users working on the free consumer version of Notify.me might have conceieved. The real time notification can have endless possibilities and overwhelming fun. It’s time to say Hello real time web.