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Yahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a Dream
By NikNik | October 25, 2007
We previously mentioned the use of Google Alerts for your real estate marketing research, and now Yahoo account users can take advantage of Yahoo! Alerts. But don’t get too excited. Yahoo! Alerts does provide a free information delivery service via email, instant message, pager, or cell phone. And getting alerts by cell phone is pretty cool. But I had to weed through Yahoo’s rows of content categories to find their keyword search in “News”. Also, each content category has you setting alerts in different ways, making set up time longer. Yahoo does throw us a bone by offering alerts on blogs and feeds. But I’m way too addicted to my Google Reader for feed organization.
Personally, the interface and content categories on Yahoo leave me frustrated and headed right back to Google. Google Alerts has a fabulous simple search that scans News, Web, Video, Blogs and Groups. But, it’s your choice!
On a more exciting and advanced note, Yahoo! Pipes is a winner! For me, this is the best application I have seen and used from Yahoo! Those of us that maintain more than one blog and often guest post on other blogs, may be wishing you had an uber-RSS feed that synchronized all your web content into a single delivery source. Well, you can create such an uber-RSS by using Yahoo! Pipes. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! For detailed instructions on creating your own Pipes, visit Technology for Real Estate.
Topics: Blogging, Business Organization, Marketing Solutions, Technology Solutions |
5 Responses to “Yahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a Dream”
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October 25th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
[...] HelpMyAgent.com wrote an interesting post today on Yahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a DreamHere’s a quick excerptYahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a Dream Posted on October 25th, 2007 by niknik [ dream1 … .jpg We previously mentioned the use of Google Alerts for your real estate marketing research … ! Alerts does provide a free information delivery service via email, instant message, pager, or cell phone [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
[...] niknik wrote an interesting post today on Yahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a DreamHere’s a quick excerptWe previously mentioned the use of Google Alerts for your real estate marketing research, and now Yahoo account users can take advantage of Yahoo! Alerts. But don’t get too excited. Yahoo! Alerts does provide a free information delivery … [...]
October 25th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
[...] HelpMyAgent.com wrote an interesting post today on Yahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a DreamHere’s a quick excerptYahoo! Alerts Nods Off, but Yahoo! Pipes a Dream Posted on October 25th, 2007 by niknik [ dream1 … .jpg We previously mentioned the use of Google Alerts for your real estate marketing research, and now Yahoo account users can take advantage of Yahoo! Alerts. But don’t get too excited. Yahoo [...]
November 5th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I’ve got to agree that Google Alerts is amazing and extremely useful. It’s as if you have your fingers on the pulse of their index. Very cool. Will have to check out Yahoo! Pipes, that sounds like a winner.
BTW, the link to http://www.mytechopinion.com is broken.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Well, let me know what you think if you try Yahoo! Pipes.
Thanks for catching that broken link Matt! Don’t tell Reggie over at MyTechOpinion.