Content Curation World

Triggable is a new web abb (currently in alpha) which allows you to monitor mentions of specific people, events or topics across your favorite news and social media channels.

You select your favorite sources both from within a pre-selected pool of quality news channels as well as by adding your favorite RSS feeds.

Triggable collects relevant mentions, collects them and optionally alerts you via email.

My comment: Interesting and promising alternative to the likes of Google and Yahoo Alerts (and Talkwalker Alerts), and to the new cool kid on the block: Mention. 

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.triggable.com/ 

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After Google Reader, Feedburner and Google Alerts may be the next sacrifical offerings by Google to the social gods in order to gradually replace those tools with the features available within the G+ ecosystem.

Mine are only speculations for now, but there seem to be enough evidence if you look at how Google Alerts has performed recently or when it was last time that Feedburner was updated. and when they have been updated last to at least consider that Google may soon put both of them to rest.

SEO expert Danny Sullivan has recently reported on SearchEngineLand: "One of Google’s oldest features is Google Alerts, where you can enter keywords you want to monitor and get an email report each day about any new search results that match those terms. It was awesome; but for several weeks, it’s become nearly useless."

(Source: SearchEngineLand)

So, if you are going to lose also Google Alerts what alternatives are available for you?

Jeremy Floyd looks at this specific issue on his blog and bring back some useful info on eight alternative tools / services you can use right now to get, at least in part, what Google Alerts has been providing you (for free) until now.

Informative, resourceful. 7/10

Full article: http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2013/03/google-alerts-alternatives/

Ping.it (review), a web app which allows you to monitor and discover relevant news in your areas of interest, has just introduced a new powerful feature with makes it possible to track any relevant content being published around a specific keyword.

Just specify the set of keywords or keyphrase you want to track, and almost instantly Ping.it provides you with a preview of relevant content items. 

Probes can be tailored to your specific needs, by applying specific search parameters and social popularity filters. It is also possible to exclude specific keywords. 

I find Ping.it and its keyword monitoring facility very effective and capable of bringing me only high quality results in my field of interest. I would not hesitate to recommend it to those who need to seriously monitor any topic.

Find out more about this feature: http://ping.it/blog/go-beyond-rss-with-keyword-probes/ 

Free to use.

Try Ping.it: http://ping.it/