Filter Your Feeds for Free

Filter Your Feeds For Free

By Steve Rubel
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-03-28

First there was FeedRinse. Some complained that they were stingy on the free feed filters.

ZapTXT says true dat and offers the same service for nada. They screen your feeds for certain criteria and zing you an SMS, an e-mail or an IM. Great idea and they have a bookmarklet. The message here, entrepreneurs, is to build a nice moat around your service before you charge. Make something remarkable that's difficult to replicate.

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About the Author:
Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.

He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.