The comments are broken!
I can't believe it - I found a post where the author is effectively begging for a Touchstone-esque solution, but the comment system is broken so I can't tell him we exist.
Read all about it - Maybe one of you can find a way to ping him for us!
This is also an interesting post about RSS -> SMS. I actually had this thought once - but I realized that there was too much garbage on RSS to just blindly SMS it all to someone! But perhaps, with Touchstone sitting in the mix, we could set up a visualization that sent the most important updates to SMS. With 'importance' being determined by all the smart attention engine work we're doing!
*Goes back to working on the all new Touchstone 'Status Map' feature*
Read all about it - Maybe one of you can find a way to ping him for us!
This is also an interesting post about RSS -> SMS. I actually had this thought once - but I realized that there was too much garbage on RSS to just blindly SMS it all to someone! But perhaps, with Touchstone sitting in the mix, we could set up a visualization that sent the most important updates to SMS. With 'importance' being determined by all the smart attention engine work we're doing!
*Goes back to working on the all new Touchstone 'Status Map' feature*
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mmm.. chris, tell us what this "Touchstone 'Status Map' feature" is?
About a year ago I was looking for an application that would send RSS to SMS alerts. I couldn't find anything at the time, so I wrote one myself (zaptxt.com). I had exactly the same concern you have. I didn't want to receive an SMS alert every time a feed got updated, I wanted to be notified for "important" posts only. So I added RSS filtering and alert scheduling mechanisms. Now, I can say send me SMS (or email) alerts if a new post contains certain keywords/phrases and between 8AM and 10 PM only. I don't want my phone to beep at night. I store all new RSS posts that meet my search criteria but only send them out during the specified time.
eduard
zaptxt.com
Heya Eduard, thanks for dropping by!
This sounds great! Like I said in the post, I thought SMS would be cumbersome and expensive, but it sounds like you have solved most of those problems with your tool.
Well done - and thanks for dropping by!
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