SANTA CRUZ, Calif., March 24, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Santa Cruz Tech, the provider of unique information solutions and PubSub, the essential tool for anyone tracking what people are saying about the topics they care about, today announced the launch of FeedBeep, the first Internet-driven service providing real-time RSS alerts to Short Message Service (SMS)-enabled phones and mobile devices.
PubSub is a free service that monitors more than nine million Internet sources on users' behalf and notifies them instantly when things they care about are published in blogs, press releases, SEC filings, newsgroups and other sources. PubSub's real-time offering is called "prospective search" for its ability to alert on new information as soon as it appears. FeedBeep, a service of Santa Cruz Tech delivers RSS news feeds from around the world to your SMS phone or pager.
FeedBeep utilizes PubSub's prospective search technology to monitor RSS feeds and the blogosphere-using keyword search. FeedBeep then forwards important events in the form of alerts to subscribers' cellular phones or other SMS-enabled mobile devices.
"Prior to our relationship with PubSub, FeedBeep used a retrospective search pull-and-match engine that required "spiders" to crawl the whole Internet around the clock," said Jay Campbell, president, FeedBeep. "By tying in PubSub's prospective search real-time matching engine, the job of information hunting and gathering was instantly less time-consuming, more accurate and continually updated. As a result, FeedBeep became an order of magnitude more powerful overnight."
Using PubSub, FeedBeep delivers instant access to potentially critical news. For example, when a press release is published containing keywords or phrases requested in users' subscriptions, FeedBeep alerts those subscribers via SMS. In this example, public relations professionals and reporters would receive instant notification of breaking news important to them, without having to continually monitor dozens or hundreds of Web sites from their computer.
"FeedBeep and PubSub now provide the final link between people and the Internet's wealth of information," said Robert Wyman, CTO and co-founder, PubSub Concepts. "PubSub's relationship with FeedBeep allows users to receive the critical information they want when ever and wherever they want it, either at their computer or on the move. With access to instant information updates in blogs, news releases or other critical alerts, people are empowered to respond using the very latest and most relevant information."
About the PubSub Service:
PubSub.com provides a free matching service that continuously reads over 9 million blogs, over 50,000 newsgroups, all SEC Edgar Filings, press releases from major wire services, earthquake data from the US Geological Survey, and FAA airport delay information to instantly alert users whenever items of interest appear. This unique, real-time notification service is made possible by PubSub's proprietary "matching engine" which, each day, performs billions of matches of subscriber requests against newly-published items.
About Santa Cruz Tech and FeedBeep
Santa Cruz Tech provides a range of unique information solutions. Founded in 1994, it has built the county's second-largest local Internet Service Provider, a popular international news organization, a 20,000 player stock market simulation, the world's largest hand categorized blog index, and now FeedBeep for "event to phone in 60 seconds." Visit www.feedbeep.com for more information.
About PubSub Concepts, Inc.
PubSub Concepts, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2002. The company develops Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and plans a series of product releases designed to make prospective searching a vital element of the Internet experience. Visit www.pubsub.com for more information.