Using Notify.me for selective updates

With the growth of near real-time content becoming prolifically available and therefore harder to be selective about the content that is contextually relevant to yourself.  I have found the use of Notify.me a useful tool to help the filtering and parsing of flow of information around me.

The essence of Notify.me is pretty simple feed it an RSS/Atom feed (add some filters if required – very useful for verbose streams), select your preferred notification method (instant messenger, mobile phone, email, desktop or web)  and then sit back and wait.

So far I’ve preferred to receive updates via the IM option.  I’ve not used the conversational AI IM bots, but find the those that provide news and other information to user via the IM clients as particular useful.  Especially as IM clients are so pervasive, desktops apps, browser based plugins, and mobile applications – you never far from IM connectivity!

My Alerts

These are the useful alerts I using Notify.me for so far:

• My Twitter (mentions/replies/@’s) as it can sometimes get lost in your tweet stream, and I want to remain responsive and aware of them as and when one is posted. For me this added dimension bring an element of the IM conversation to Twitter in a simple easy to use manner.

Otherwise the applications I’ve used are sports based…

• Tracking the BBC Sport web site football feed for Manchester United related news
• I’m also trying out a Twitter feed for the wickets and scores related to the Ashes – not a ball by ball account, but important score line updates.

In all these cases the filtering mechanism has come into play, as the feeds I’m using are more verbose that the content I want to be delivered, and so the filtering options for Notify.me are very handy.

Is anyone else using it?

Twitter take off or viral spread?

Just a note on the present wave of favour around Twitter in my online social circle…

Having signed up and bookmarked in del.ici.ous in March; and let it lie.  I’m now behind in the game; as Steve, Graham and Stuart are twittering frequently…

Twittering On 

Twitter  

 

and now there will be updates from LotuSphere2008 …

 

http://twitter.com/Lotusphere

 

May be it’s Facebook, may be it’s the easy access… handset, desktop, web browser.

So it’s time I started following…

 

Technorati Tags: Twitter, social Networking

Boy do things move fast!

I’ve just added the meebo widget to my blogs.. see link

So if I’m logged into meebo and MSN (and any IM client I could choose) and hey presto! I can have IM chats through the blog widget!

It’s free, it’s fast it’s fantastic!

Here’s a link to Meebo

To me this is clear evidence that the consumer is reacting to and driving the technology landscape… people know that anyway. But it’s nice to use something out today just like that!