Useful Tuesday : RSS Feeds to IM

Published on Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Useful Tuesday is all about finding something to make your online life easier! Today we’re thinking about the many ways to receive updated RSS feeds. Many of us use instant messaging programs and have them connected all of the time. So it would likely be a good idea to send RSS feeds there, but how? The answer is IMFeeds.com! Signing up and using this free service could not be easier.

First just add their robot to your buddy list. We named him Easy Feedy.

Next you’ll go through the sign up process and Easy Feedy, or er, the robot will send you a message while you go about your usual routine. (Like organizing your Kermit the Frog photo collection.)

Now that you’re acquainted, you can send a message to the robot to add a feed, or use the website to add a feed. In this example I grabbed the feed for the Surpass Hosting Forums Announcements section.

The robot or the website will confirm the addition and then, for us, it took about 15 minutes for the update to come in. How convenient to receive an IM for a website update!