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I linked To Sabifoo a while back on a post about IM to RSS…at the end of this post I was talking about generating an RSS feed for IM conversations, essentially RSS chat (now there’s a catchy name).

Maybe IM accounts could have tags like Gmail, when you finish an IM conversation you could tag it, and this tag could have an RSS feed…just like Gmail tag feeds…see more.

You could even take this RSS chat feed and filter it, then even re-syndicate these chats on your blog sidebar, if you’re game.

Anyway, Steven Cohen’s post led me back to Sabifoo…this is a little different, it is posting to a webpage via your IM client, this webpage is hosted by Sabifoo, and each webpage has it’s own feed.

This is kind of similar to standalone RSS feeds, but not really as there is a public web page to view the HTML rendition of the contents…and you are posting from an IM client (remote posting).

Standalone RSS feeds are services like pu.blish, feedxs, linkRSS, and feedbite…some of these like feedbite also have a public HTML webpage to view the RSS contents, but in its purest form standalone RSS feeds is where you have an admin area to post RSS content, and that’s it, people can subscribe to the feed in their RSS Reader or other RSS reading client…you don’t have anywhere to promote your feed or view the content unless you re-syndicate the feed somewhere else or use the feed on a blog or website.

[ADDED: mashable has more]