Strangely enough, I haven't bumped into these companies, but was twigged to them by a recent article at Instant Messaging Planet: MindSay and Tipic.

Mindsay has built a complete blogging infrastructure and provides an AIM interface to allow the creation and posting of blog content. A nice feature, but not that exciting, really. Kind of like the Blogger feature that allows sending blog content through email, although I can imagine using the email interface more (which I have) since Outlook supports spell checking, and AIM doesn't.

Tipic is an instant messaging company, building enterprise IM on the Jabber (XMPP) protocol, with operations and most sales in Europe. Theoretically, they have launched a new service -- Mo'time -- that fuses blogging and IM in more signficant ways, including support for IM notifications of comments on blog entries, and readers can be notified by IM when new content is posted. This sounds cool, but when I tried to click from the Tipic website this morning (which seems to be running *very* slowly) the link provided for Mo'time (the obvious www.motime.com) didn't work -- the server must have been down. Now it seems to be up, but it is running *very very* slowly.

I plan to follow up with this service, and find out more. Sounds interesting.