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Here’s a shout out to Yahoo! Alerts.  They have a simple setup, a simple UI, and a relatively decent and quick response time.

I use both Yahoo! Alerts and also MSN Alerts.  MSN is quicker, but Yahoo! Alerts is more practical in my opinion.  It’s more practical because it does *not* send instant updates and it also sends updates each time an RSS feed is updated.  MSN Alerts doesn’t track updates, only the initial item.  Also, Yahoo! Alerts doesn’t require the author of the RSS feed (me in this case) to do anything to get them to work.  Anyone can just go use them.  MSN Alerts require the author to register and give info about the feed, prior to providing an alert that they’ll publish.  That makes the Yahoo! one much more user friendly.

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Nobody (besides me in my own testing) has ever used the Text Me feature that I’ve posted in my links.  It’s pretty cool that you can text from a web site and have it land on my mobile phone, live and right now.  I probably will not keep paying LiveJournal for that after my current year’s subscription is up.  That’s one of the key features I liked with their paid version.  But, in the mean time, getting a text from anyone in a different country would be fairly cool, and a neat ego boost for me. 

I added the “Geek” tag to this post, because I think most common users will not care.  That’s too bad.  I think the world would be a better place with a few more geeks around!  (Yes, that is to be read: “Why isn’t everyone more like me?”  And, it is a shot at my own ego.)

Further note here… “geeks” was not found via spell check, but my typo with the word “is” was found when I typed “iis.”  It found IIS, for Microsoft’s Internet Information Systems.  Wild, Wacky Stuff!  And a “further#2:” I can’t stand it that it’s grammatically correct to include the last punctuation “inside a quote.”  I think that last period in the previous sentence should “always” be left on the outside.  That would make our English grammar so much simpler.

I’m all about anything to simplify.