Yahoo RSS Alerts

Just after the RSS Reader in the new Yahoo! Mail, they’ve come up with IM, SMS or Email alerts to any RSS Feed out there. It’s called Feed/Blog Alerts and its live on alerts.yahoo.com. With Yahoo! Alerts tou can get real-time updates sent to your mobile phone, email or Yahoo! Messenger with triggers you can specify, like: Stock prices go above/below a limit, your favorite sports team wins/loses a game, the snow at your favorite Ski resort is perfect, etc…

So now its possible to get an alert when a specified RSS feed updates, and should be compatible with any RSS/Atom/RDF feed.

But it seems to me that is a bit overdone, if you are a RSS user you will use that technology to keep up-to-date. I don’t know why I would want a SMS or E-mail when a webfeed changes. But on the other hand this may help new RSS users to addapt…

Scott Glatz names a few ways to use Feed Alerts:
* Blogs that update infrequently – I don’t like to clutter up My Yahoo! with feeds that don’t update too often, so I subscribe to an email alert for those feeds. If that feed only updates once every few weeks, I’ll get it by email when it does.
* Stuff I need to know right away – like a Craigslist search for something I’ve been hunting around for a while or today’s sale on Woot!.
* My own blog’s comment feed – ok so maybe I’m a little too new at this, but I love to know when I have comments, send it right to my phone please!