RSS readers may make it easy to quickly browse through all of your favorite news sources, but they can quickly become overwhelming – many of the most popular blogs publish dozens of posts a day. Notify.me is looking to help cut through the noise by offering keyword filtering for blogs and other sites that support RSS (like Craigslist), and the ability to send immediate update notifications across a variety of services.
Notify.me allows users to create a list of RSS feeds they’d like to monitor for a set of specific keywords. Whenever one of these keywords appears in a story, Notify.me can alert them through SMS, Email, instant message, or through a desktop application. Users can also receive immediate updates from their social networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn, by switching their social network account’s email address to [user]@notify.me
While creating an account is easy, the site itself is more barebones than it should be. The default list of available RSS feeds only offers one source for each category – something that was likely done for simplicity, but sort of defeats the point of being able to monitor a wide variety of sources for a single subject. The site does offer a bookmarklet for adding more feeds to your account later, but it would benefit from a broader selection and more intuitive interface.
Notify.me shares many similarities with Yotify, another customizable alert startup that we covered in September that was described as “Google Alerts on Steroids’. For more on Notify.me, check out its profile on Go2Web20 here.
Notifixious is great in this field as well! Feel free to give it a try!
i really don’t see the point of using this for Craigslist. you can simply get the RSS for any search WITHIN Craigslist and then paste it in your RSS reader.
example of a search for a house with a pool and a dock in south florida (broward county) between $1,000 and $2,000 and only with pictures:
http://miami.cr...&format=rss
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Its all about the filter. And its time alerts evolve beyond the rudimentary Google alerts which are great but not enough. Most RSS-only plays will face a tougher time competing with Google Alerts though as it is good enough for that. There are a whole range of other updates that one would want alerts for which may be the sweet spot.
In Australia, wotnews.com.au does something similar except they already have thousands of feeds built in and use collaborative filtering to supplement basic keywords monitoring.
I forgot to say it supports the main IM protocols, that it also supports ‘filtering’ and have great APIS in both XMPP and HTTP!
Interesting… will try.
I use a combination notify.me and ping.fm to connect my twitter to pidgin.
It would be nice to be able to recieve and send tweets in the same window, but I still find it more convenient than running an entirely seperate twitter client.
very nice feature to have and update you in what you like.
Amazing. You embedded a Google Gadget for sending SMS onto your spam website.
Thanks for sharing.
ok
I definitely struggle with traditional RSS readers since they quickly overwhelm me and overrun my ability to stay current with the incoming posts. I’ll give this a try in home for a cure.
Signed up. Thanks!
We are small, we are new and we’re growing quickly. We have many new features in the pipeline, a nifty air client should be public in about a week. Also integrating in alltop.com magazine feed allowing non tech savy users an easier way to find topics. Which address some of the concerns above.
Please tell us what you love/hate here => http://getsatis...on.com/notifyme
Cheers,
Jason Wieland
CEO – notify.me
How do you plan to scale this type of thing? I’m not sure if websites will like how you’re constantly pinging them for updates, even if you are sending them more traffic in the long run.
For you scalability questions, you can read an article our CTO did for highscalability.com
http://highscal...hronicity-kills
Goes into some interesting concepts about messaging buses and staying away from databases.
Regarding the website traffic we have yet to here a complaint and we monitor about 10,000 sites. We do have an XMPP api we are finalizing that will allow sites to integrate it into their publishing process and will tell us in real time when a new item is published. Because we use etags and last-modifided headers most of the time we get a 304 back from websites so there is very little traffic or load.
Will the AIR client use the Adobe Wave notification service that was announced at MAX 2008? Seems to make sense… to scale worldwide.
I like it. But here’s what I (and MANY others) would like to be able to do:
I want to be able to search for a string of keywords across mutiple sites/feeds, and create a new feed/stream out of that list. For example, maybe I want to create a stream from the string: iphone +love OR hate OR wish OR feel OR believe OR think
I want to be able to pick a topic or keyword and find out what people are talking about in real time, and I (and many others) are ready to pay for that. Right now.
Can it be done? Has it been done? What do you think?
I think this idea has a lot of potential for them. Not sure why they are being pigeon-holed as RSS focused when the video demonstrates a craigslist search. Regardless, this is something to watch.
Alert services seem to getting popular. Like we ShoppingNotes.com specialize in price alerts. Just go to http://www.ShoppingNotes.com and enter the URLs of your favorite Christmas gifts and your email address, and we’ll monitor their prices and notify you when their prices change. Give it a try. You are very likely to save some money for your Christmas shopping.
The idea is good, the implementation feelds half-assed. Do you guys at techcrunch try the stuff before writing about it? I tried pasting RSS from Craiglist… wouldn’t accept it. ;( Additionally – it’s just an RSS-Reader… no vicious filtering or stuff.
Lots of tools in this space. Friendfeed does it by allowing you to add any RSS feed.
I blogged about Notify.me for StartupSD a few weeks ago, and I’ve been using it as Twitter track hack ever since. The biggest advantage that I’ve seen is how quickly Notify.me alerts me when there’s new content (an advantage over most RSS readers).
http://www.jenn...han-twitterspy/
Because they are using Craigslist’s RSS feeds to monitor after initial search. If you do any searches on CL, at the bottom there is an RSS feed that you can subscribe to that will allow you to continue to monitor a search query there.
Not very tech savvy, eh Steve?
That was directed at “Steve Bomber” above.
Hello Timo,
notify.me does offer filtering, just click on ‘Add Filter’ on the source listing page. Also, if you provide us with the Cragistlist URL on http://getsatis...on.com/notifyme and we’ll find out why it didn’t work for you.
This is a nice and useful product and definitely something long term RSS users would love to use. I am the product manager of MeeHive and would also encourage you to go browse the site http://www.meehive.com. Our consumers specify their unique set of interests (e.g., UCLA Basketball, Global Warming, etc.) and the product creates a personalized newspaper for you. The consumers do not have to worry about RSS feeds etc. The ability to specify favorite RSS feeds as well as take away the entire newspaper as a RSS feed is in the roadmap within the next couple of months.
Nice. But for me, it is old wine in a new bottle. There is one great idea and then there are so many ancillary ideas around it. Not a bad approach but how successful is my question.
What would their business model be. Web scout services have mushroomed up but how do they intend to make money?
by the way, I found Yotify better.
This looks like an easy-to-copy stuff, although it is pretty cool and useful now, one has to wonder its long term viability.
how different is it from rss readers like attensa etc… reader + filtering? so only the selective content updates are allowed
How does this integrate with smart phones, and those who stay away from SMS, or Email, and prefer thin applications to engage with their content?
This is discussed more in detail:
http://www.xtif....com/blog/?p=34
someone have an invitation code? did i just miss it?
Notify.me is addicting. I love it.
Here is the invitation code for you above me
http://notify.m...4C-EA705FEA471C
556D65C6-BBE9-11DD-A74C-EA705FEA471C
in Germany http://www.allyve.de is doing a similar service for social Networks!
Notify.me Offers Instant Updates On Your Favorite Topics Across The Web
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nice application i already using the notify for latest update on my favorite topics and completely impress and happy with notify … thanks…….