Recently Dialog has been offering a "News Alerts" service, with a monthly charge of 30 Rs. ( ~0.30 USD). It is cheap, but why pay for something when you can get it for free ! and dialog is only offering BBC news alerts. What if we want some other news alerts service ? well.. then we are screwed, 'cause dialog only offers BBC ( And derana news alerts - which I turned off after they started sending utterly useless updates )
What's the free alternative to news alerts ?? what else it's TWITTER !! well there's a little catch.. because you are only allowed 250 updates per week.. or something like that.. but it doesn't really matter (at least for me) because when you are logged in with Jabber/XMPP (Gtalk) twitter sends you the updates via IM. So the txt quota is saved :)
The best part is that there are so many news services that you can subscribe to. There's BBC, CNN, Slashdot (yeah !), Wired and even various Digg feeds. So you can stay up-to-date with the things that you want to know ;)
Get a twitter account, configure device updates, follow CNN, Slashdot or whatever you want to follow.
Here are some interesting tweets.
Hopefully this little idea of mine will be practical :P to the users who use the dialog bbc news feeds ;) The people who use twitter won't find this much useful ( Mainly because they are mostly online, and doesn't need txt alerts much / And they may have other tweets that they are following and will find this an a nuisance).
But if you are interested, then you can try this and give some comments about it :) and you can follow me on twitter.
What's the free alternative to news alerts ?? what else it's TWITTER !! well there's a little catch.. because you are only allowed 250 updates per week.. or something like that.. but it doesn't really matter (at least for me) because when you are logged in with Jabber/XMPP (Gtalk) twitter sends you the updates via IM. So the txt quota is saved :)
The best part is that there are so many news services that you can subscribe to. There's BBC, CNN, Slashdot (yeah !), Wired and even various Digg feeds. So you can stay up-to-date with the things that you want to know ;)
Get a twitter account, configure device updates, follow CNN, Slashdot or whatever you want to follow.
Here are some interesting tweets.
- CNN Breaking News - cnnbrk on twitter
- BBC News - BBC on twitter
- ./ - slashdot on twitter
- Wired - wired on twitter
- Digg Front Page - digg_feeds on twitter
- Digg tech feed - digg_tech on twitter
Hopefully this little idea of mine will be practical :P to the users who use the dialog bbc news feeds ;) The people who use twitter won't find this much useful ( Mainly because they are mostly online, and doesn't need txt alerts much / And they may have other tweets that they are following and will find this an a nuisance).
But if you are interested, then you can try this and give some comments about it :) and you can follow me on twitter.
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2 comments:
I'm doing the same here. Only CNN though. Doesn't go over the limit but I don't like it much now. :D But still, I love twitter ;)
hehe, yeah.. I love twitter too, it's too addicting :D
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