I just came across ZapTXT today via eHub; it's a service that filters RSS feeds for keywords and sends you an
email or text message to your phone when the keyword appears. The site claims to ping RSS feeds every few
minutes. Sounds great, but I'd like IM notification.
I can get IM notification of RSS feed
updates using immedi.at for free, or I can get IM, email or SMS messages when feeds are
updated for a small fee with Rasasa - does anyone know where I can get SMS, email
or IM and feeds filtered for keywords? Update: Just got an email back from the Zaptxt folks, they say it's
something they will likely be supporting in the future. Cool!
These sorts of always-on awareness
tools can work well with ubiquitous connectivity, and I'm betting that the field is just beginning to form. All
of the above features would fit nicely within Feedburner, wouldn't they?
Well, a guy can dream.
ZapTXT: Rapid notification options expand
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Thanks for mentioning Rasasa. Rasasa is actually doing exactly what you ask for. You can filter feeds with keywords. It checks if you're online and will send you through IM if you are. If you're not it will check SMS rules and send by SMS. If you don't want SMS for the selected feed it will pass on the news to your emailaddress.
If you have any other wishes :-)
3. That's fantastic. It looks like these tools are improving right before our eyes!
Posted at 11:19AM on Mar 9th 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
1. Touchstone allows you to control your RSS alerts and has keyword support. More than this it will let you rank content based on keywords and make it do different things based on the aggregate ranking.
(E.g. Normal stuff just displays on a desktop ticker where-as more important stuff might have a popup alert or SMS)
Posted at 2:35AM on Mar 8th 2006 by Chris