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RSS Blog Alerts Via TXT Message
 By Glenn Letham
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-12-07
Yahoo! has added yet another feature to the growing support for RSS and RSS search.
Mobile device users with select carriers can now subscribe to receive free text message alerts whenever their favorite Blog supporting RSS feeds are updated. The service is simple:
Jump to http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=blogs
Sign in to your Yahoo! account
Add the URL for your RSS to be notified about
Add a mobile device
Specify your carrier and device type
To receive text message alerts of GISuser updates specify the following URL - http://www.gisuser.com/index2.php?option=com_rss&no_html=1
Carrriers supported include Cingular, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, and a few others.
See also:
http://mobile.yahoo.com/
http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=create
About the Author:
Anything Geospatial: Tracking developments affecting GIS, geospatial technologies, location-based services, mapping, google earth and google maps. Published by the creator and editor of GISuser.com & LBSzone.com
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