techcrunch.com — Send mobile notifications from your website to mobile phones by just adding a couple lines of code. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars to make your own iPhone app, you can simply use Notifo which is more than an App, but a mobile platform that any website can use to push notifications to users.
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jrod4040Mar 19, 2010
Wow, looks like a pretty damn cool app.
mavantixMar 19, 2010
Cross platform support is nice to be funneled through a single API, but will Apple continue to allow this app on the app store?I like that it can open a URL from the notification.
macharborguyMar 19, 2010
Apple currently allows Prowl, which advertises itself as a way to send Growl notifications to the iPhone. However, Prowl also offers an API, which wpTouch (a WordPress plugin to add an iPhone version of your site) uses to send new comment notifications to the iphone.
macharborguyMar 19, 2010
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diggericonMar 19, 2010
so true
wildMar 19, 2010
So, its goal is to be kind of like a Flash for notifications? Meaning it would be proprietary, platform agnostic, and only work if people have it installed as a sort of "standard"?(I'm one of those people who likes flash, so I'm not making this comparison negatively)
pir80099Mar 19, 2010
Thousands to write an App? I'll do it on the cheap.
crimsonblurMar 19, 2010
Letting users sign up for text message notifications is far more useful than this. Without a dedicated App for your site/service, Push notifications are pretty useless because if any other notification comes up they will never see it (on the current iPhone anyway). They won't even see multiple notifications of your own.I'm not sure how notifications work on Android/Blackberry. Regardless, it still requires your users to download and install a third-party App and you have to use their API to send them.Sending text messages to users can easily be done for free and is far more simple than the bulk text message companies would like you to think. Every Wireless phone number has a corresponding email address for text messages. The address only depends on what carrier they have.
s73v3rMar 19, 2010
I think the difference is, with Growl, you still have to have a custom app. With this, there is one app that the user downloads, and they can receive notifications from any site that works with this.
kkiranMar 31, 2010
You can actual use an app on the iPhone to queue your push notifications. I don't remember the name but it exists..