I can see the space shuttle from my office

A great treat today for the Xtify team this morning.....we got to see the Space shuttle Enterprise from our roof in New York City!  Another intangible benefit of being part of the innovative, rich, and growing Silicon Alley community.


The shuttle is going to be displayed in Manhattan at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and was on its' way to JFK airport.

Mobile Social Videosharing App Looplr Uses Xtify to Engage Customers

Looplr is a real-time video sharing app for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices (THINK Instagram but for videos). The application is free and in use by hundreds of thousands of users around the globe. The app allows users to shoot, store, watch, and share videos with other members of the growing Looplr community. In addition to enabling users to browse through uploaded videos to see what other users are up to and where in the world they are filming from, Looplr makes it easy to share videos with Facebook and Twitter. The company partners with Xtify to engage its’ user base via push notifications and keep the app top-of-mind.

I had a chance to speak with David Chorlton, Looplr’s CEO. He had the following comment, “As a startup we find Xtify to be an amazing tool to enable real-time notifications to our users to advise them of bug fixes, new features, new app versions, or just to say Hi as a reminder our app is there. Xtify solves real problems that face a mobile startup and push notifications are one of those, so rather than deploy precious resources on integrating ourselves with Android and iOS push platforms we simply integrated Xtify SDK’s instead and we were up and running in a day. When we send a push we see an immediate response, and that rocks! As a social video sharing app, communication with our users is critical and Xtify allowed us to do this with minimal development effort and expense. I highly recommended Xtify to other companies!”

As the app continues to be refined (stay-tuned for additional community and social features) the future uses of Xtify's push notification service will expand and prove to be an integral communication medium between Looplr and its’ community of users.



The app is currently live in the Android market (Google play) and in iTunes.

For Android devices, click here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.looplr.

For iOS devices, click here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/looplr-video-social/id478017685?mt=8.

PHP Push Notification Script Added to Xtify GitHub

For all of my fellow PHP lovers, we have a new PHP script/class available for your enjoyment.  The script interfaces with our Push 2.0 API and easily lets you send pushes to your Xtify-enabled apps from your PHP server.   Here's a snippet from the README:

The script instantiates a PHP class matching the Xtify 2.x API (http://developer.xtify.com/display/APIs/Push+API+2.0).

The sendMessage() method JSON-serializes this class (getAsJSON()) and uses CURL to post the JSON string to the Xtify 2.x API. The script requires PHP version >= 5.2

The current version of this script is set to use action->type=DEFAULT and no rich content but you can always set more advanced options after the class is instantiated by referencing properties the PHP object or by changing the default settings of the properties.

The script was created by an external Xtify contributor, Anders Retterås from Norway (MANY THANKS!!) and is available on our GitHub repo XtifyTools. 

.NET is next... any friends want to contribute? Let me know.