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.

technorati tags:
ZapTXT, RSS+Wii, Gaming

Allan Hoffman wrote an article on NJ.com called “IF U R KEWL U CAN TXT (Translation: If you are cool, you can text)” that talks about how texting is breaking into mainstream usage, well beyond the youth and early adopter crowd.

ZapTXT was included in the article as an example of how to monitor topics of interests on sites you read via IM, Email and SMS.

“ZAPtxt (www.zaptxt.com) will monitor Web sites based on keywords of your choice. You could choose to monitor a sports Web site for your team or a business site for a company; when new information appears about your keyword, you’re notified with a text message. As with a number of other services, you can also opt to receive alerts via e-mail or instant message.”

NJ.com provides news, business and sports updates from Newark Star-Ledger, The Times, Trenton, The Jersey Journal, Easton Express-Times, Bridgeton News and Today’s Sunbeam.

A big welcome to all the folks from NJ local communities that came by to check out ZapTXT. Our NJ debut was on Hoboken411, a blog focused on Hoboken, NJ where we are proud to power notifications for new posts and comments via IM, Email or Mobile Device.

Thanks for the mention Allan!

Cheers, Sameer

technorati tags:Nj.com, zaptxt, Hoboken411, Allan+Hoffman

Well, we don’t need a lawyer (we have one!) but we recently found out that the legal community needs us.

ZapTXT was profiled in a recent TechnoLawyer newsletter to law professionals in an article titled: “Bring order to the E-discovery chaos - and other hot products.”

Dennis Kennedy writes a detailed analysis of ZapTXT. Here’s an excerpt:

“You can use tags and search tools to refine the information you want. For example, you can set up a “Zaptask” with key words related to your practice and receive alerts when developments occur in those areas. You might monitor when clients get mentioned in the news or an expert is quoted. Of course, you can also monitor sports teams, shopping bargains, and job openings.

You are not limited to RSS feed material from single sites. You monitor topics or tasks, not just a single site. You can even specify the sites that make up the feed universe you monitor, expanding or contracting that universe as you wish.

ZapTXT is easy to use. Enter your keywords, including Boolean operators, enter the feed information, choose how you want to be alerted and the frequency of updates, and give your task a title and tags. You can then review and sort your Zaptasks in a variety of useful ways.”

TechnoLawyer describes its mission as “Our sole job consists of creating and maintaining an environment in which legal professionals and others in the field can share their knowledge and experiences with their peers.” The series of available newsletters is a great resource for legal professionals trying to make sense of technology as it applies to law and the daunting word of RSS and web based research tools. Neat stuff.

TechnoLawyer is owned by PeerViews Inc., a privately-held online media company in New York City.

Thanks for the detailed write up Dennis! We appreciate it.

technorati tags:ZapTXT, Legal, Law, Productivity, Research