RSS to SMS (in beta)
January 19, 2005 5:02 PM Subscribe
FeedBeep lets you customize SMS alerts for almost
any
RSS
feed
out
there.(and is taking beta testers.)
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Please sign up as a beta tester if this is interesting to you. That crowd gets lifetime membership with no price mark-up beyond what FeedBeep pays the SMS carriers.
posted by jayCampbell at 5:17 PM on January 19, 2005
posted by jayCampbell at 5:17 PM on January 19, 2005
I may be overly paranoid, but I refuse to give either my Email address or, more importantly, my mobile phone number to a company that has no mention of a privacy policy anywhere on their website or registration form.
The last two "invites" by friends to join SMS service websites have had privacy policies so insidious, I felt dirty just having received an Email from them. It's entirely possible that FeedBeep will be different--and honestly, I hope they are--but until they can assure me that they're not going to use my data for evil or sell it out to third parties, no thanks.
I can deal with waves of useless crap in Email, but the second I start getting anything but calls or text messages from friends and family on my phone I'm going to start breaking things.
posted by abiku at 8:12 PM on January 19, 2005
The last two "invites" by friends to join SMS service websites have had privacy policies so insidious, I felt dirty just having received an Email from them. It's entirely possible that FeedBeep will be different--and honestly, I hope they are--but until they can assure me that they're not going to use my data for evil or sell it out to third parties, no thanks.
I can deal with waves of useless crap in Email, but the second I start getting anything but calls or text messages from friends and family on my phone I'm going to start breaking things.
posted by abiku at 8:12 PM on January 19, 2005
Privacy Policy and rough ToS are up now: no third party dissemination of your information, and no spam.
(ObCaveat: there might be opt-in marketing some day if it will let those users pay less for the service but this isn't an active plan.)
posted by jayCampbell at 3:17 AM on January 20, 2005
(ObCaveat: there might be opt-in marketing some day if it will let those users pay less for the service but this isn't an active plan.)
posted by jayCampbell at 3:17 AM on January 20, 2005
abiku, so you haven't gotten SMS and MMS 'spam' yet? You lucky sod! Perhaps it's more common in europe. It's annoying beyond belief.
posted by dabitch at 3:37 AM on January 20, 2005
posted by dabitch at 3:37 AM on January 20, 2005
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