Get Notification of RSS Feed Updates With Feedbeep

You may be quite content just letting most of your RSS feeds sit in your feed reader until you get around to 'em. On the other hand, there may be feeds whose content updates you want to know immediately. In that case you may want FeedBeep, at http://feedbeep.com/ (hat tip to Library Stuff.

This service does cost money, but if you want to be alerted to changes in RSS feeds and have an SMS mobile-phone, this could be very useful.

First you'll have to register. This requires a user name, desired password, and of course the phone number. Once you've registered FeedBeep will send a message to your phone with additional information. (Note that this service is offered worldwide, but you may want to check the list of supported providers at http://my.feedbeep.com/?action=help&node=4

Once you're registered, you log in. Once logged in, you can set up alerts. Now for this kind of thing I would want keyword-based alerts, as you can get exactly what you want with a minimum number of alerts. But Feedbeep allows you to specify which keywords must appear in the update for you to be alerted. So if you wanted to subscribe to the ResearchBuzz alerts, and get updates only when RSS was mentioned, you could do that with FeedBeep.

Alerts can be sent to your SMS device, or to Feedbeep's Webmail. You can also specify that Feedbeep not alert you "at night" -- it would be nice if you could specify what hours you don't want to be alerted. If the busiest part of my day is between 6am and noon, I may not want to get alerts then, and don't mind them the rest of the time.

Like I said, this will cost you. Costs are $2.95/month for a basic subscription (15 to 30 alerts per month) or $14.95 a month for a pro subscription (100-200 alerts per month.) Subscriptions are via PayPal.

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