Whitney McNamara's Sea Monkey Rodeo.
This blog moved over here in August 2006. Come by if you're interested in newer posts.
rss feed
del.icio.us links
My ten most recent del.icio.us bookmarks listed below. Also spliced into the RSS feed, courtesy of FeedBurner.
monthly archives
June 2004
July 2004
August 2004
September 2004
October 2004
November 2004
December 2004
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
September 2006
contact email
seamonkey (located at) absono.us
creative commons
standard disclaimer
All opinions expressed here are, of course, entirely my own personal views, and do not reflect the views of my employer or its associated companies.
Monday, June 14, 2004
Roll your own Real Simple Shopping feed
About a week ago I noticed Real Simple Shopping, a service that takes the spam risk out of subscribing to product offer email lists by subscribing to those lists for you and passing the content along as a customized RSS feed.
A couple of days later I noticed that dodgeit.com -- a service that offers free, public "maildrops" -- offers the ability to read @dodgeit.com mailboxes via RSS feeds.
Because it was a slow Sunday yesterday, I found myself sitting around and thinking "you know, dodgeit.com would allow me to build a better customized RSS feed right now." I just made up a @dodgeit.com email address, added the RSS feed for the address to FeedDemon, and started subscribing.
Now I've got the offer/event emails from Powell's Books (the best bookstore in the world, bar none), REI (excellent outdoor equipment), and the Self Starter Foundation (good independent records) coming to me in a nice, neat feed...and if Huy Fong Foods offered a mailing list, you know I'd be signed up for that right quick.
Funny thing, really: I genuinely want to hear from all of those places about offers that they might have for me, but I would never have actually signed up for their lists via email. I just have too much unread email for me to voluntarily add to the pile. I'm not sure that I'd even have signed up for RSS feeds from each individual source -- but with the ability to create one completely customized commercial feed of my own? Hell, yes, I'm there!
Comments:
<< Home
SeaMonkey Rodeo:
I run the Real Simple Shopping service. First, thank you for the posting about our service. You get what we offer so it helps in spreading the word about our service. The dodgeit.com offers very similar service. It's great to see so many different approaches to utitlizing new technology to provide similar solutions. Kudos to dodgeit.com.
promotions@realsimpleshopping.com
Post a Comment
I run the Real Simple Shopping service. First, thank you for the posting about our service. You get what we offer so it helps in spreading the word about our service. The dodgeit.com offers very similar service. It's great to see so many different approaches to utitlizing new technology to provide similar solutions. Kudos to dodgeit.com.
promotions@realsimpleshopping.com
# posted by 
: 11:28 PM
: 11:28 PM<< Home
