I was tired of hitting the refresh button in my browser to see if the story I knew was going to break soon had made it to the slashdot front page. Oh! the agony!
Grant and I figured out a way this morning to do a trivial technology mashup that gives us instant alerts when something happens.
- create a gmail account http://gmail.google.com (not your usual one, but one just for this purpose)
- forward the gmail account to your cell phone by using http://teleflip.com which turns yur-phn-nmbr@teleflip.com into an sms message to your phone
- create a google alert http://www.google.com/alerts with your search string, and set it to “as it happens”
wait for the love!
