Comments on: Introducing inboxlistening: follow the online conversation by email

By: Bex Obrien

Bex Obrien — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:29:09 +0000

Steph – this is great and does exactly what I need!

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:19:27 +0000

Thanks Steven – to be honest, the tool just displays whatever Google thinks is ‘news’ vs ‘blogs’ … looks like identi.ca is ‘blogs’ to them!

By: stevieflow

stevieflow — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:34:47 +0000

Very nice

I noticed in some tests for Plings that some test notices we made in identi.ca were being included in “blogs” – whereby should really be “twitter” if you get my gist..

http://www.inboxlistening.com/app/index.php?news1=plings&news2=&news3=&news4=&news5=&blog1=plings&blog2=&blog3=&blog5=&blog5=&twit1=plings&twit2=&twit3=&twit4=&twit5=&email=

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:37:17 +0000

@Tracy – perspctv.com looks very interesting and spookily similar in some ways. inboxlistening is a much more basic approach probably intended for an audience with simpler needs – but there are some interesting ideas in there.

By: Neil Williams

Neil Williams — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:25:18 +0000

Wow.

By: Tracy Playle

Tracy Playle — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:35:09 +0000

Have you seen http://www.perspctv.com? Very similar to what your doing here, but doesn’t appear to offer a weekly or monthly email report as yours does. That little added extra will really appeal to some people. Might have to add it to my list of useful monitoring sites that I show people when I’m giving out the ‘if you do nothing else with social media, at least start listening’ message in some of my talks and training sessions.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:26:43 +0000

@Simon D: just using William Fowler’s rather long in the tooth class.Email.php:

http://www.codewalkers.com/c/a/Email-Code/PHP-Text-HTML-Email-with-Attachments-21/

… to simplify sending HTML email. I need to send plain text versions in the same bundle but haven’t quite got round to that bit yet.

By: Simon Dickson

Simon Dickson — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:13:14 +0000

Like it. What are you using for the emailing bit: anything clever, or just php’s mail function?

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By: Simon Pauley

Simon Pauley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:38:59 +0000

Good work Steph. going to try it out with some users and see what they think compared to usual channels.