Notify.me is a San Diego startup trying to take over the web-based alerts space already occupied by companies like Alerts.com, , and Yotify.com. Basically users can add any source with a RSS feed to their source list, choose the destination for the alerts (SMS, IM, or email), create filters for the type of information to be received, and voilà a notification is sent to the destitation of the user’s choosing when there is new content available.
Jason Wieland, CEO, and I recently grabbed a cup of joe together and discussed all things Notify.me. Most of the conversation was spent discussing how Wieland plans to distinguish Notify.me from the competition. According to him, Notify.me has three distinct advantages.
Notify.me is in private beta, but you can sign up and play around with the service using this link.
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Wieland openly admits that Notify.me’s biggest challenge at the moment is to raise funds. Right now he’s full time on the project, but his CTO Arne Claasen still has a day job at MindTouch; together they just can’t currently afford to staff full-timers or cover additional operational expenses.
Should the company find the $400,000 they’re in search of, I could easily see Notify.me staying afloat. The service itself is incredibly functional, although not mindblowing or revolutionary, and Wieland has a few revenue-producing ideas for a sustainable business model. Plus as a (although the tutorial could use some work), it’s actually really awesome and faster than Twitterspy—I use Notify.me and my Jabber client to track all Twitter mentions of jbruin, san diego, and sdtweetup to name a few.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
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November 13th, 2008 at 11:30 am
[...] About us Notify.me Delivers RSS Items to Your Inbox, Cellphone, or IM Client [Notifications] Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ 11:30 am | Author: admin When you want the latest update to an important RSS feed sent to you wherever you are, the moment it’s published, give the Notify.me notification web service a try. Set up source feeds in Notify.me and have new items sent to you via instant message, SMS, or email. I signed up for Notify.me two days ago and got no new items from my feeds for a day; then yesterday afternoon the IM bot kicked in and I was getting notifications of new feed updates faster than my check-every-15-minutes desktop feed reader. Suggested uses for Notify.me include job listings, social network updates, and search feeds. notify.me [via StartupSD] [...]
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November 13th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
[...] When you want the latest update to an important RSS feed sent to you wherever you are, the moment it’s published, give the Notify.me notification web service a try. Set up source feeds in Notify.me and have new items sent to you via instant message, SMS, or email. I signed up for Notify.me two days ago and got no new items from my feeds for a day; then yesterday afternoon the IM bot kicked in and I was getting notifications of new feed updates faster than my check-every-15-minutes desktop feed reader. Suggested uses for Notify.me include job listings, social network updates, and search feeds. notify.me [via StartupSD] [...]
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November 13th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
[...] About us Notify.me Delivers RSS Items to Your Inbox, Cellphone, or IM Client [Notifications] Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ 3:00 pm | Author: admin When you want the latest update to an important RSS feed sent to you wherever you are, the moment it’s published, give the Notify.me notification web service a try. Set up source feeds in Notify.me and have new items sent to you via instant message, SMS, or email. I signed up for Notify.me two days ago and got no new items from my feeds for a day; then yesterday afternoon the IM bot kicked in and I was getting notifications of new feed updates faster than my check-every-15-minutes desktop feed reader. Suggested uses for Notify.me include job listings, social network updates, and search feeds. notify.me [via StartupSD] [...]
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November 13th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
[...] Notify.me Delivers RSS Items to Your Inbox, Cellphone, or IM Client [Notifications] Posted by news on Thursday, November 13, 2008, 11:00 This news item was posted in Technology category and has 0 Comments so far. When you want the latest update to an important RSS feed sent to you wherever you are, the moment it’s published, give the Notify.me notification web service a try. Set up source feeds in Notify.me and have new items sent to you via instant message, SMS, or email. I signed up for Notify.me two days ago and got no new items from my feeds for a day; then yesterday afternoon the IM bot kicked in and I was getting notifications of new feed updates faster than my check-every-15-minutes desktop feed reader. Suggested uses for Notify.me include job listings, social network updates, and search feeds. notify.me [via StartupSD] [...]
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November 13th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
[...] When you want the latest update to an important RSS feed sent to you wherever you are, the moment it’s published, give the Notify.me notification web service a try. Set up source feeds in Notify.me and have new items sent to you via instant message, SMS, or email. I signed up for Notify.me two days ago and got no new items from my feeds for a day; then yesterday afternoon the IM bot kicked in and I was getting notifications of new feed updates faster than my check-every-15-minutes desktop feed reader. Suggested uses for Notify.me include job listings, social network updates, and search feeds. notify.me [via StartupSD] [...]
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November 14th, 2008 at 8:39 am
notify.me—通过IM,SMS,E-mail跟踪RSS feed更新…
notify.me 是一个提供通过 IM 、SMS、E-mail等多种途径跟踪 RSS feed 更新的服务平台。
和我们前面提到的 vicito 是一类的服务,相比之下,notify.me少了关键词追踪,多了短信 SMS 接受途径,…..
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February 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
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