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Tara Calishain from ResearchBuzz just said some nice things about ZapTXT. She closes with:

“If you’re looking for a simple way to get RSS feeds by e-mail, ZapTXT is usable. But where it really shines is when you want to monitor controlled lists of URLs for specific keywords and get your results in a variety of formats. And that OPML support is a really nice bonus.”

Click here to see the full post.

If you havent bumped into ResearchBuzz, its a premier resource for information and news on Internet Research with the a big litmus test being “Would a reference librarian find it useful?”. So we are obviously thrilled that we got Tara’s attention and estatic that she includes ZapTXT in her talks at Web Search University.

I mentioned to Tara that we are committed to her audience and our forums are open to take your suggestions and feedback. At the end of the day, if a researcher of any kind depends on ZapTXT to do information monitoring so he/she can spend more time on analysis and writing, we’re making a real difference as opposed to just building cool technology.

Thank you very much Tara. We appreciate the review.

ZapTXT forums went live last week. We hope to use the forums to collect feedback, comments and ignite a discussion on how ZapTXT can support specific user communities with their ‘need to know now’ as well as general content filtering needs.

In addition to Craigslist and eBay users, our tag cloud has begun to flourish with very useful feeds around topics such as diabetes, gadgets and PR. It’s nice to see how people are using ZapTXT to receive alerts about important information that they would otherwise have to monitor manually.

Two companies feed sets have also emerged for Sun and Cisco. For example the Sun tag ropes in a sort of 360 on the company’s publicly available content sources - press releases, events, Jonathans blog as well as other important information such as system and patch updates. Nice to see early on.

We hope that the forums compliments these and new user communities to drive not only sharing on useful feeds but also on how we can continue to improve how ZapTXT serves your specific filtering needs.

We look forward to engaging with you at the Forums site.

Happy Zapping, Sameer

Its been a week since we launched and now that we’ve caught up with some sleep and re-introduced ourselves to our families, I thought I’d take a minute to say a big Thank You to all that reviewed and posted about ZapTXT.

We also got many many private emails wishing us the best and kudos (and bug catches as well!) which we are very grateful for.

Here’s the run down of some of the posts in the first week:

Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web had some kind words to say about the new release here: ZapTXT: promising RSS topic subscription service 

Richard’s post (thank you Richard) triggered an eventual showing on the front page of Techmeme as well.

Emily Chang of eHub was nice enough to post as well: ZapTXT re-launches

Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration was the first to post a nice review. If this title summarizes his opinion of ZapTXT, we better start coding much faster to live up to such tall praise. Here’s the post: ZapTXT: Monitor your Favorite RSS Feeds for Keywords [Better than Google Blog Alerts]

Ewan MacLeod of SMSTextNews shot us back an email right away with hearty congratulations and alerted his users to our new release. Post: Have you checked ZapTXT.com recently?

Rev2.org summarizes its analysis with “ZapTXT turns out to be one of the best players in this space”. Full Post: Track and Monitor Feeds with ZapTXT 

And the blog posts keep coming in…

Please write to us at:     feedback (at) zaptxt-inc.com,     if you have any comments or suggestions. 

Thanks again to every one for their good wishes. Look for new ‘mini’ releases starting in a week.