Three Tools For Mobile Data Alerts

Cell phones are becoming more and more versatile, its one of those items that people rarely leave the house without. It’s not a bad thing, just an advancement in technology over the last couple decades that is sure to continue into the future. A cell phone isn’t just for making and receiving calls, there are a wide variety of uses for the cellphone. There are some great web based tools that allow the cell phone user to further expand their use. Here are three tools that you can use to have access to information as soon as it comes available.

Pingie.com offers a simple user interface that allows users to provide an RSS feed and receive updates via SMS. After signing up you can enter as many RSS feeds as you want and deactivate your account at any time. The service sends you a text every time the content within the feed updates. It’s just that simple.

Taking a step up in functionality there is Zaptxt.com. With Zaptxt you can create alerts to your email, mobile, or instant messenge r. You can take your mobile alerts a step further by specifying a keyword that you want to filter your feed for. If the keyword is mentioned on your specified feed Zaptxt will let you know in the way that you specify. Zaptxt also has a dashboard for you to view the latest “hits” on your keyword that you specified. There is an extended option to monitor your “hits” within an RSS feed.

fastbreakmobile.com is the third web based tool that you can use to receive data feeds via your mobile phone. Like Zaptxt you can filter your feed by keyword and specify your delivery options. Using Fast break mobile you are given a link within your text to read the content that you specified. They have extended product options that include a service to receive daily surf reports using surf2phone. They also have an extended service offering that enables businesses to partner with them for their mobile marketing needs.

The technology behind mobile, email, and messenger alerts is really cool. In order to really benefit from these services you need to understand what information is valuable enough to be alerted. If I were to set up alerts for keywords that I monitor I would quickly become over burdened with data streaming to me at all hours of the day. The technology is cool but you need to know the best ways to use it in order to benefit the most.