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annoying or useful?

At first, it sounds like a texting nightmare from hell, but RSS via SMS has a place in our world through Web-Alerts, a small web experiment that might get lost in the vast internet desert that is web 2.0 failures. The service sends you a text message for every update to a chosen site’s RSS feed.

The service is simple and simple to use. When you first visit the site, it’ll ask your to enter a web address. If it finds an RSS feed for your chosen site, it’ll ask you to enter your cell phone number. Should any updates happen to your chosen feed, a preview of the update will be forwarded to your phone. Removing a subscription is easy enough. “Just open the link in your text message and select ‘My Alerts’ to remove any alert you’re subscribed to.” Furthermore, you can enter a keyword with your phone number so that you’ll only be forwarded updates via SMS when they contain the keyword.

This could be extremely useful for someone closely watching a specific topic such as a stock broker. It could also become extremely annoying if you find yourself answering your phone each ten minutes to halt the latest SMS from incessantly vibrating in your pocket. Our advice: use wisely.

[via The Boy Genius]

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