Introducing Pingie: Instant Information Gratification, Get Your RSS as SMS
Introducing Pingie, an instant RSS to SMS notification utility. This ABSOLUTELY FREE service has been simmering in the Experiment23 labs for some time now and is created to allow information junkies to stay consistently in the loop via SMS or email notifications.
Stuck in a cube all day with restricted internet? Pingie can help bring your favorite site updates directly yo your mobile phone. Addicted to Woot? You can get notifications on the latest Woot item. How about SlickDeals? You can be alerted the second the latest deal is posted. Want the latest developments from CES or Macworld? You can get those too! The possibilities are endless! All you need is a mobile phone and an RSS feed of the website you want alerts for.
Pingie is absolutely free for you to subscribe to and to use, however your cellular carrier may charge you fees to receive text messages. Before signing up to Pingie, we recommend subscribing to an unlimited text messaging plan. Also we currently only fully support only US carriers - with limited support with Sprint and Nextel (We have been working hard for weeks with Sprint/Nextel engineers to resolve this issue).
What about users privacy? We went to GREAT lengths to protect users data, all information given to Pingie will NEVER EVER be sold, exchanged, or rented to third parties and is protected in a secured database.
I ask that you surf on over to Pingie and give it a shot, after a few days you’ll never be able to figure out how you lived without it.
7 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Evan
Interesting, good work, it looks great. Testing it out to see if it works here outside the US, but I doubt :(
Jan 2nd, 2008
Matt
Quite an interesting idea actually, and useful. Looks good so far.
Jan 2nd, 2008
Dave Zatz
Damnit, Dan… Guess my phone bill will be going up AGAIN! ;)
Jan 2nd, 2008
Flo
This looks like a VERY promising service! Any idea if/when it could be available internationally?
If not, I might have to rebuild it for all the Austrian carriers myself, ’cause I find it so damn useful ;)
Jan 3rd, 2008
Paul B
Pingie was a great little thing, but one time it decided to send me over 20 texts for one post. Was somewhat annoying (I think it was the Adobe speaking out about 192……. post).
Maybe will reinstate my subscription if this little bug gets fixed
Jan 13th, 2008
Nate Nead
Interesting post. I noticed Pingie has the same shortcode as Mobivity. That would mean it’s the same guys. These guys have all sorts of ideas they’re running with. It would be interesting to see which one is the most profitable for them.
Apr 8th, 2008
Dan
Nate, We use Mobivity as your SMS provider. It is a wholly owned Experiment23 property.
Just as Mosso is our host, they are just our means to connect to the users.
Apr 10th, 2008
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