Introducing Yip: A Unified Notification System for the Web

I'm going to go ahead and give you my feedback, since everything else here is nonsense crap.<p>I think it's a great idea. I've definitely wanted something of this sort for a while now. A notification system that alerts me when someone has written on my facebook wall, messaged me on meebo, replied to my HN comment/submission, posted a blog post, etc - a consolidated system. You should start integrating it with more services and give users the option the to pick and choose which ones they want to use your service for. I'm not quite sure how feasible that is from a technical standpoint, but from a consumer's point of view, that flexibility to hook my various services into a consolidated notification system would be awesome.<p>Good start.

No.<p>It integrates with a system (GrowlHelper.app) which runs with all your permissions and hasn't received any security scrutiny and was designed to take input from a few, trusted sources. What could possibly go wrong?

This is impressive, but how will this not be abused for spam? Fluid's window.fluid.addDockMenuItem() is alarming, but even just growl support for arbitrary sites will get spammed to death pretty quickly... it's just a new species of popup.

If you're using linux, then Specto does this for anything at all, including websites:<p><a href="http://specto.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://specto.sourceforge.net/</a>

Maybe I'm just jaded but all these things just seems like tired old rehashes of the same ideas dressed up with new names to try and make them sound cool.<p>If you send me an email, I will get a notification popup because my email notifier does it. If you send me an instant message notification I will also get a small notification popup because I am running an IM client. If there is a way Yip works better than those then I'm struggling to think of it. I really don't need more ways to receive small notification popups. We have XMPP, we have SMTP. Stop reinventing wheels.

It sounds good, but I don't see why he needs to curse in his introduction. I almost stopped reading. It's unprofessional and unnecessary.

Hey, am I wrong or did merely visiting this site try to install a Browser Helper Object? Not cool.

Shouldn't that read, "A Nunified?"

Groaaaann....<p>Please tell me that this sort of thing is not going to become the norm on websites...<p>This is the reason that I migrated away from facebook.<p>Text.<p>It works.