Alternatively, not quite the same thing at all, but a local startup here in Ottawa has a service and Restful API for Sending Push Notifications. Its called AppNotify ( http://appnotify.com/ ).
Yeah, it was very sneaky of Mozilla to force Firefox 3.6 on 3.0 users. It seems to be hanging and crashing left and right. Switching to something else though is not an option for a variety of reasons.
Not that similar, I think appnotify falls under the class of APSN infrastructure service provider which brings to mind,
UrbanAirship - http://urbanairship.com/
iLime - https://www.ilime.com/
Yeah, I think thats fair to say. Also, being Canadian and not being in Toronto or Montreal, doesn't help much either, or it can seem that way sometimes(at least from experience with the startup I work for).
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Alternatively, not quite the same thing at all, but a local startup here in Ottawa has a service and Restful API for Sending Push Notifications. Its called AppNotify ( http://appnotify.com/ ).
Why the hell does it keep loading one script a second from xxx.olark.com? And then subsequently crashes the browser.
It's Olark doing cross-domain polling via script tags.
Get a better browser.
> Get a better browser.
Yeah, it was very sneaky of Mozilla to force Firefox 3.6 on 3.0 users. It seems to be hanging and crashing left and right. Switching to something else though is not an option for a variety of reasons.
It's similar. And most have never heard of it. Perhaps some value of being YC vs. not-YC. TC coverage and all.
Not that similar, I think appnotify falls under the class of APSN infrastructure service provider which brings to mind, UrbanAirship - http://urbanairship.com/ iLime - https://www.ilime.com/
Yeah, I think thats fair to say. Also, being Canadian and not being in Toronto or Montreal, doesn't help much either, or it can seem that way sometimes(at least from experience with the startup I work for).