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ZapTXT Get news and blog alerts via email, IM, or mobile phone

ZapTXTZapTXT lets you sign up for news alerts much like you can get from Google News or Google Blog Search. But there's two things ZapTXT can do that Google can't:
  1. ZapTXT lets you select the web sites or RSS feeds you want to monitor.
  2. ZapTXT lets you receive alerts via email, instant messenger, or as text messages on a mobile phone.
ZapTXT supports Jabber, Gtalk, MSN Messenger, Gizmo, and LJ Talk. Support for Skype was just added. We'd like to see some AOL IM and IRC love in there, but beggars can't be choosers.
[via Digital Inspiration]

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I discovered something interesting when I was in college. If you want to win free tickets to a concert, it's not much use trying to be the 95th caller to the local Morning Zoo-style radio station. Just be the first or second caller to the local college radio station.

In fact, once I remember the deejay saying that the third caller would get free concert tickets. I walked over the phone, picked it up and dialed. I was the first caller. So I hung up, waited a moment, dialed again, and I was the third caller.

What does this have to do with Google Blog Search? Well, with radio stations, there are big well-known web sites with huge audiences, and there are small college stations. On the web, there are A-list blogs and web sites that have thousands or entries every time they give away prizes as part of a contest. And then there are small blogs trying to build traffic for their sites.

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