This is the second-round of funding for the London-based firm which launched desktop alert services for news organisations and large corporations several years before RSS was widely adopted.
We also created a desktop alert module that was a tool that sat right on top of the computer desktop so that information was pushed directly to the fans and they were notified when new updates were available about the film.
Twitter/FriendFeed desktop client Alert Thingy just released version 1.3 of the software.
Other changes that have been made in the 2.0 release include the ability to play audio and video files inside Outlook, a desktop toast alert tool for high priority items and a number of stability and deployment improvements.
Users are getting very used to using desktop clients (Twitterific, Alert Thingy, Twhirl, etc)., IM, SMS, and other interfaces to talk to Twitter.
None of that data is particularly useful, since so much of the action on Twitter occurs via mobile phones, instant messaging and desktop clients like Alert Thingy, MySocial24x7 and Twhirl.
Result: Home security CCTV systems that can be accessed remotely, alerts to your desktop and phone.
Several levels of subscription access, email news alerts and a desktop news ticker are available.
That includes things like advanced charts, follower analytics, breaking news alerts, mobile and desktop management, ability to change the color scheme and multiple account switching.
Conversational pings will register as alerts on the desktop, or via SMS, email, or IM on mobile devices, and archived for later scanning in cloud stores like Gmail's chat archive.
