A new way to handle information overload
A couple weeks ago I launched notify.me. Our focus is to keep people up to date with information they care about. One way we do that is allow users to add feeds (rss/atom news feeds) to the service. We monitor the feed and when it changes we push a notification to the user destination of choice.
This becomes very useful when trying to deal with time critical issues. For instance, trying to find high demand items, like concert tickets on craigslist, or searching for a new job on SimpleHired, or staying up to date on your fantasy football team. In all of these examples, you'd want to be alerted and be able to respond first, before anyone else. Notifications can be delivered to a number of destinations from mobile phone to instant messenger, email, desktop application or browser.
This becomes very useful when trying to deal with time critical issues. For instance, trying to find high demand items, like concert tickets on craigslist, or searching for a new job on SimpleHired, or staying up to date on your fantasy football team. In all of these examples, you'd want to be alerted and be able to respond first, before anyone else. Notifications can be delivered to a number of destinations from mobile phone to instant messenger, email, desktop application or browser.

