Comments on: You Don’t Have to Use an Aggregator to Keep Track of Your Favorite Topic http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/ News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle and other fun stuff Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Sameer http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/#comment-50217 Sameer Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:56:18 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/#comment-50217 <p>Thanks for the write up Eddie. Appreciate it. ;)</p> <p>APC/Roel Thanks for the comments. ZapTXT is really meant to be a monitor and push mechanism for content based on keywords or phrases across headlines of your trusted sources. Unlike Google Alerts, we don't monitor the entire web or blogosphere. Rather you pick your trusted sources for a given topic and we'll make sure to deliver a notification to you, at the place of your choosing.</p> <p>Compare this to a traditional Feed Reader where you receive every post from every feed that you in one static place. ZapTXT lets choose IM and SMS for 'perishable' or time sensitive information and Email or RSS for content that can wait for you until you have time.</p> Thanks for the write up Eddie. Appreciate it. ;)

APC/Roel
Thanks for the comments. ZapTXT is really meant to be a monitor and push mechanism for content based on keywords or phrases across headlines of your trusted sources. Unlike Google Alerts, we don’t monitor the entire web or blogosphere. Rather you pick your trusted sources for a given topic and we’ll make sure to deliver a notification to you, at the place of your choosing.

Compare this to a traditional Feed Reader where you receive every post from every feed that you in one static place. ZapTXT lets choose IM and SMS for ‘perishable’ or time sensitive information and Email or RSS for content that can wait for you until you have time.

]]> By: Roel http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/#comment-50216 Roel Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:32:03 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/#comment-50216 <p>Hi Eddie, I use Wizz RSS and Oracle News extensions (in FireFox) to keep track of the blogs (like this one). I once tried Google Web Alerts on Blogs but my mailbox almost exploded after 2 days... I'm afraid that ZAPTxt would have a similar effect ;-) CU Roel</p> Hi Eddie,
I use Wizz RSS and Oracle News extensions (in FireFox) to keep track of the blogs (like this one). I once tried Google Web Alerts on Blogs but my mailbox almost exploded after 2 days…
I’m afraid that ZAPTxt would have a similar effect ;-) CU
Roel

]]> By: APC http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/#comment-50215 APC Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:05:18 +0000 http://awads.net/wp/2006/12/05/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-to-use-an-aggregator-to-keep-track-of-your-favorite-topic/#comment-50215 <p>Hmmm, I get enough e-mail as it is. I think ZapTXT just transforms a problem rather than solving it.</p> <p>Still, it's nice to know such things exist. Thanks for pointing it out.</p> <p>Cheers, APC</p> Hmmm, I get enough e-mail as it is. I think ZapTXT just transforms a problem rather than solving it.

Still, it’s nice to know such things exist. Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers, APC

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