Please notify me

We have been using Salesforce Chatter at work. It is an excellent micro-blogging platform with many features. However one thing it lacks is notifications of incoming chatter posts and responses. The only way to get notified is by email. But that is like sending somebody an email, and then calling them up to tell them that you sent them an email.

Salesforce Chatter needs to provide better notifications.  I would prefer to get notified of incoming posts and replies through the push notifications on Android / iOS, that appear in the status bar. Or may be a Chrome extension that shows number of unread chatter posts in the status bar. Or something similar to what Facebook / Google+ provide. 

Gmail and Google Reader notifications in a Chrome Extension

 Google+ notifications in Gmail 

There are many to provide notifications without utilizing email.

Here are some of the interesting ideas posted on the Salesforce IdeaExchange for improving chatter notifications:

https://sites.secure.force.com/success/ideaView?id=08730000000K8JMAA0

https://sites.secure.force.com/success/ideaView?id=08730000000JhxkAAC

https://sites.secure.force.com/success/ideaView?id=08730000000XoYjAAK

https://sites.secure.force.com/success/ideaView?id=08730000000Yq0JAAS

https://sites.secure.force.com/success/ideaView?id=08730000000g1TfAAI

https://sites.secure.force.com/success/ideaView?id=08730000000KcuxAAC

So if any Salesforce engineer is reading this blog, I would like to request them to take a look at the aforementioned ideas and provide a better form of notifications.

Sincerely,
an avid chatter user