IM notifier?

Hi!

I’ve been working on a IM notify idea for wordpress for a while now and it’s getting to a stage where I’ll soon be testing the service (first on my blog and when bugs etc are corrected I’ll make it possible for others to use this service).

The idea
The idea is to allow users to register to your blog and get updates to their IM’s about new posts/updates.

Example:
You register to the blog ‘Blogtastic’ that allows users to get notifications through IM (with a small plugin that I’ll write when the service works as expected). The user registers his/her MSN account to the site.

When the admin of ‘Blogtastic’ writes a new post, the bot receives a normal ping from your wordpress blog. That ping tells the bot to fetch all the users registered to that blog and fetches the new post using the normal rss-feed. That feed (containing the title, link and description) is sent to the users registered to ‘Blogtastic’.

Thoughts
Currently the above works about 80%, in other words, some more coding needs to be done before it should work perfectly. Like if the user isn’t online at the time, he’ll get the notice when he goes online and so on.

There’s some commands, like fetching the latest post (will work on this one so that you can specify how many posts you want to fetch) as easy as just writing to a short command to the bot. But what other commands would be needed for this service?

Are there other feedbacks on my idea? Is it a good idea and would you offer it to your users? Anything else you’d like to share on this matter?

Currently the development can be followed through my blog ( http://xintron.se/notebook/category/pythonbot/ ). That’s about it 🙂