Some nice mentions over the last week.

The last 10 days have been absolutely nuts here at ZapTXT, thanks to holiday shopping and in particular the Wii shopping frenzy. Folks from all walks of life adding RSS feeds from Wii tracking sites to ZapTXT to receive notifications as soon as the Wii or specific game showed up at one of the major retailers. Then more users came to monitor game review updates via IM, Skype, Email, SMS using RSS feed from sites like, 1UP, IGN and GameSpot. More on this here.

First, Joystiq, the popular gaming blog wrote up ZapTXT as one way to locate a Wii if you couldn’t get to “The one American store with daily Wii shipments“. Thanks a lot guys. You sent a lot of new users our way and we really appreciate it.

KillerStartUps thoroughly explains what ZapTXT does in this article but also asks whether we can be a mainstream utility. Well, given the scores of school teachers, librarians, and moms and dads monitoring the Wii using ZapTXT shows that we do have mainstream utility. We’ll always make sure we fine tune usability but this experience has shown that we are off to a good start.

And last but certainly not least, this morning, Mike Gunderloy at Web Worker Daily gave us some ink in his post titled “WWD Coffee Break: Portfolio, RSS and Notes“.

A big thank you for taking the time to write us up.

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A month ago we started to see a surge in Nintendo’s Wii tracking using ZapTXT. So we thought we’d share, in case there were some Wii-heads out there desperately seeking one for the holidays.

An awesome utility to track Wii availability is Wii Tracker. WiiTracker tracks Wii availability at major retailers such as Amazon, Buy.com, CircuitCity, Costco.com, eToys.com, Sears, Target.com, Frys.com, and Walmart.com and provides updates on availability for each of these retailers. What’s cool is that you can click straight through from WiiTracker’s site or from the ZapTXT alert to the shopping cart for each of these retailers.
WiiTracker has an RSS feed that you can use to subscribe to all updates via an RSS reader. Or you can use ZapTXT to receive notifications via IM, Skype, Email or SMS, only when WiiTracker finds new inventory at any of the retailers its tracks.

Use this link to use ZapTXT to monitor the Wii and you’ll be on your way. Important: Remember to use our keyword monitoring feature with the phrase “in-stock” to only receive notifications when the site detects available units.

Happy shopping, Sameer