While I was actively looking for a good notification service to alert me on the kind of notifications that I’d like to receive, and this has led me to a site called notify.me. Now with this notify.me, I’ll get the options of receiving latest and real-time updates via mobile phone SMS, IM (Instant Messenger), and email, instead of having to constantly check the variety of sites for the notifications.
There are many types of notifications that notify.me offered to the users. This could be the latest technology news profiled on Slashdot.org, or world news reported on CNN.com, or any news feed you subscribed to, and based on your preference, you can enable notify.me to send the notifications to your IM, SMS, or email. Notify.me’s future plan is to enable its users to receive notifications via their desktop applications. As a result, a kind of client software that utilizing notify.me’s service will be offered to the users very soon.
To further empower users in using notify.me conveniently, users might need to add the notify.me bookmarklet to their Web browsers. For the users, however, this could be seen as an easy way that will help them to receive the notifications from the variety of services solely from the Web interface. For example, if you want to receive your real-time updates from your Twitter, Facebook, etc. just visit these sites, and click “Add to notify.me”, this will gives you the option of receiving the latest notifications of these sites (but make sure you get the right RSS feed format). Additionally, for the content notifications, you can filter it by any keyword you type into the filter box in order to add a filter. Along with this feature, you also can click any of the three (3) icons, i.e. IM, SMS, email and make it highlighted so that you’re able to receive notifications based on the highlighted communication channel.
