Just a quick one. I've seen the news that Yahoo is offering RSS feeds to SMS! Bloody brilliant, i love it! I'm currently hooked into around 20 RSS feeds at the moment and try to get through all of them each day. Obviously that's too many to be sending an average of 15 posts each to my mobile each day, but for a precious few its an awesome idea, or so i thought...
It turns out that its for Yahoo USA only and i can't find anything that says it'll be rolled out worldwide yet, bloody annoying and bloody useless. Sigh, i guess i'll just have to wait.
But it has got me thinking, what are the potential business opportunities? Which companies / industries could really benefit from this technology? Obviously there are the sports results and stock quotes being sent straight to your mobile, but this is already done (albeit at a premium price - something i suspect the RSS feed will do for free). So lets remove the obvious ones, what else could there be?
I'll think on this and work it out, perhaps i'll be that entrepreneur yet.
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I think this is aided in part by the fact that many US operators charge you for receiving text messages (as well as sending). So it's either cost neutral to Yahoo (or slightly revenue generating).
RSS is just the beginning!
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