Zaptxt now sends alerts to Skype too

By Vivek | March 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 am ET         

All feeds are not created equal. For the better ones you use Zaptxt and for the others you fall back to regular desktop or web readers. Zaptxt has been delivering posts and comments RSS in form of IM alerts to GTalk, MSN, Gizmo, LJ Talk, and Jabber supported clients for the past year. To add to this comprehensive delivery engine Zaptxt has also begun delivering RSS alerts to another very large community of users - Skype, a fast moving community who would just love this integration.

There are few other startups in this space but as compared to them Zaptxt’s strength lies in its ability to combine feeds and monitor the set of feeds for keywords or phrases. Also users who are just starting out in the RSS world and want to stick to their regular tools like IM and mobile phones, they can use the tag and search topic clouds for feed discovery and start getting alert for those feeds through instant messages and SMSes. Last year Zaptxt had also launched its publisher program that besides providing the ZapTXT widget for blog owners also provides analytics service. Publishers can get unique aggregated data searches performed on publisher content, delivery mechanisms used (denoting urgency), hit ratios that its users got against keywords, what posts had high comment monitoring. Another metric that you should analyze besides what FeedBurner is giving out.

Anothr(only Skype) and Feedcrier are couple of other services in the same space.

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