Rasasa: RSS to SMS, IM, email in one
Rasasa will send RSS information where you need it most.
From the help page:
“Because your not always online when important news breaks you might miss certain messages or receive them too late. Most of the time that’s not very important but for some news it’s very convenient or even crucial you receive it asap.”
Once you sign up to some feeds, you can first filter (boolean) for keywords if you like, then you can tell it where you want the feed information delivered.
It’s up to you, you can get it delivered to your email client, IM client, SMS (a combination)…so now you have one service that can deliver you information when and where you want it…you can even turn your feeds on/off. Other settings are how many messages a day, choose the hours of the day you want messages, and beyond these hours do you want the message sent to your email, or don’t bother at all.
From the information page:
“With Rasasa you can decide about each single feed if it’s important enough to receive on your phone and if you want to receive it all the time or (e.g.) just during office hours. You can also apply filters to each feed to make sure you receive the important bits.”
There is OPML import, and it also creates a spliced feed for your feed set.
There is a bookmarklet to easily add feeds, and a subscription button for your blog, so when people are reading your blog they can add you to their Rasasa account (no doubt they will have the bookmarklet anyway).
Whether its RSS-to-TXT(SMS), RSS-to-IM or RSS to email, it is covered in the one service…I think people will like to do all these things if it is easier enough, which it is when it is packaged in the one service.
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Rasasa is indeed a great tool (and I’m telling you this because I’m an advisor of Rasasa). I’m using it for over a month now and it is really amazing when your (filtered) news is pushed through your IM. Every time it pops up, it’s like, hey, yippy, wow!!! Although the service is already in Beta there are enough thing to improve. Once you’ve finetuned your feeds, it’s an ideal service.
To give you an impression for what I’m using it:
Every day I take the A4 highway, I filter the traffic feeds for all feeds containing A4.
In financial information feeds I’m filtering on the companies I’m interested in (or invested in). So, only headlines containing (google, yahoo, ebay, philips, Heineken -I’m dutch, so Heineken is a must have-)
Sport feeds are filtered on my favoured clubs
And I just plunged in all my del.icio.us tags on all other feeds I’m reading (I’ve noticed that del.icio.us tags contain my interest fields, and the news rasasa is pushing through is instantly personalized to my interests.
Hope you enjoy it as well.
Comment by patrick — March 3, 2006 @ 11:46 am
This sounds almost exactly like zaptxt.com which has been around for almost
a year… ZapTXT is a free service that also offers RSS filtering and
email or SMS notifications. While SMS notification will only work for
the North American users, there is a ZapTXT Mobile Widget that you
can install on your mobile and have access to your RSS data from your
mobile phone. That might be very useful when you’re away from your PC.
For example, when I get an alert from ZapTXT and I am not at my
computer, I can just start ZapTXT Mobile Widget and access entire RSS
post that triggered the alert.
eduard
zaptxt.com
Comment by eduard — March 3, 2006 @ 8:38 pm
We are actually trying to add some intelligence to this idea with Touchstone - the idea that you don’t want an entire feed sent to your IM or SMS and you dont want to use different services to get a graceful result.
With Touchstone it will rank and prioritize information and display it in different ways - one of those ways might be IM and SMS - but another might just be a news ticker or an alert that follows the mouse for a few seconds.
I feel this is a broader solution because it’s trying to give you teh tools to manage your attention - not just send content to SMS.
Comment by Chris - Touchstone Gadget — March 10, 2006 @ 4:27 am
I created one of the first services of this kind at http://immedi.at/ you might want to check out.
Comment by Pete — May 1, 2006 @ 9:44 pm