To set an alert, you need to register on the site first and find your item. Then hit on the “track” link, enter your desired price and you’re all set. When the prices falls into specified price range you will be notified via email.

MyItemTracker also shows product’s 30 day pricing history and lets you further filter alerts to include only new, used or refurbished items.

Features:

• Get price change notification for Amazon products.
• Set as many alerts as you want.
• Set alerts only for new, used or refurbished items.
• Search for products and sort results by categories.
• Check out popular products and view pricing history for each.
• Similar tools: Camelizer, DealWaiter, ShoppingNotes and PricePinx.

Check out MyItemTracker @ www.myitemtracker.com

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• Amazon Discount Finder

The Camelizer can also send you price change alerts by email or to your Twitter feed. To do that, click on the “Track this product” button and proceed to Camelizer website you can adjust the notification settings.

Features:

• Track product price changes from online retailers.
• Online retailers include Amazon, BestBuy, Newegg, Backcountry.com, Overstock.com and Zzounds.com.
• Track price changes by RSS or online through a unique URL.
• Get price drop alerts by email or Twitter. No registration needed.
• Similar web tools: DealWaiter, ShoppingNotes and PricePinx.

Download the Camelizer plugin @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14392 (via LifeHacker)

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• PricePinx : Get Alerts on Price Drops
• PriceCheckah: Check Prices Across Web Retailers While You’re Out
• Amazon Discount Finder

From the site:

“DealWaiter allows you to find great deals, without looking. If you want to purchase something, but are willing to wait for a great deal this site is for you. You will be emailed immediately when we find a match. 100% Free.”

You can customize the duration (4 weeks, 6 months, 1 year) of the alerts and easily terminate receiving them whenever you want to by clicking the “Remove” link in the email notification.

Features:

• Free online deal alerter.
• Monitor as many items as you like.
• Alerts delivered via email or Twitter.
• Supported sites: Amazon.com, ZeroDayDeals.com, Slickdeals.net and Fatwallet.com.
• Stop receiving alerts by clicking “Remove” link.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar tools: Waitable and PricePinx.

Check out DealWaiter @www.dealwaiter.com

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• MyItemTracker: Get price change notifications for Amazon items
• Camelizer: Easily Track Product Price Trends & Changes
• PricePinx : Get Alerts on Price Drops
• PriceCheckah: Check Prices Across Web Retailers While You’re Out
• Amazon Discount Finder

Just sign up, create a list of people to notify and how to notify them (SMS, email, Twitter). When you land at the airport, you just turn on your phone and the people in your list are automatically notified.

Service works in all countries with cellphones that support GSM standard. (Note: Currently notifications by SMS are not available for US And Chinese mobile users. For the time being, only email notifications.)

The application is free while in beta. I also got an email from founder stating that after a full launch there will be ad supported free account option as well.

Features:

• Sends flight arrival notifications.
• SMS, email or Twitter notifications can be send.
• Create a list of people to notify, when you arrive just turn on your phone and the recipients are instantly notified.
• Available for users in all countries. GSM networks only.
• Free and easy to use.

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Subscribe to broad categories like Books, as well as to specific categories like Books-> Personal Relationships. Notifications to your subscriptions are sent combined in one email. You can unsubscribe from the email anytime you want.

How notifications work for different categories:

• Amazon bestsellers – Notifes on new items in Most Popular list. Subscribe to Top 10 or top 50. US Only. Books, DVDs, Gadgets, Music and more.
• Best Movies – Notifies when a new movie appears on Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh List. (Movies in Fresh List are reviewed by more than 40 critics and score 75% or higher )
• TV Shows – Notifies where new episodes come out for selected shows
• Concerts – Notifies if a concert of the selected artist is taking place within 50 miles around your Zip code. 2 weeks in advance.
• Sports scores – Notifies on latest scores, upcoming matches, 3 days in advance.
• Top Videos (YouTube) – Notifies when there is a new video in Youtube’s most popular videos over the month. Subscribe to Top 10 or Top 50.
• Top News – Notifies when there is a new item in Digg’s Most Popular stories over 30 days. Subscribe to Top 10 or Top 50.
• Currencies – Select currencies from and into. Notifies when daily closing rate changes by 3% or more from your last notification (ex: from Euro to US Dollar).

Features:

• Subscribe to get notified on changes or news in your selected topics
• All notifications are combined into a single email
• Subscribe to general and/or to specific categories (Books vs. Books->Personal Relationships)
• Unsubscribe anytime you want
• Access your subscriptions online.

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Yotify lets you track anything on the web: send out a Yotify Scout to track new apartment rental listings, a sale on a pair of shoes you’ve been looking to buy, concert tickets that have just gone on sale and so much more!

The application is really simple to use and has intuitive and self explanatory interface. All you have to do is select the source and enter the keyword you want to monitor.

It provides you with a number of options to receive updates for items you are tracking; from daily or weekly digests, in your inbox or on the website, etc.

The concept is very similar to Google Alerts. The difference is that Yotify also allows you to narrow down your sources, unlike Google Alert.

Features:

• Monitor web content on websites you visit often for things that matter.
• Track multiple content sources easily.
• Customize how you want to receive your updates.
• Similar websites: Alerts

For more info watch demo video below:

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Features:

• Monitor YouTube for new video releases.
• Monitor videos by keyword or username.
• Customize alert frequency (once a day, once per two days or once per week).
• Free, and allows to monitor up to 10 keywords at one session.
• Other website that can be used for the same purpose is FeedKy.

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There are different options to choose from for the delivery of notifications – instant messenger, email, SMS or desktop application. There’s also a web interface which lets you manage your notifications easily.

Features

• Real time notification service.
• Track job postings, craigslist items and other listings.
• Various notification delivery options.
• Web interface to manage notifications.

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Check out sample screenshot of the email signature containing AwayFind link.

Features:

• Make sure you get urgent emails as SMS when you’re offline or on vacation.
• Urgent emails can be delivered to your phone as SMS or other email address.
• Optionally ask sender a question (ex. What car do I drive?) to only get emails from people you know.
• Customize your AwayFind contact form by choosing which information to request from sender.
• Basic account is free, paid accounts with more features also available.

Watch demo video below:

Visit AwayFind @ www.awayfind.com

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Once you have downloaded and installed the browser addon you can add your username and password for the services and get started. When you’re all set you will be able to post links and notes to your profiles only with a couple of clicks without the need to navigate from the current page.

Additionally to updating  your online profiles FireStatus also displays instant popup notifications with updates from these services, making it easier for you to keep up with them all at once.

Features:

• Quickly update your Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed sStatus.
• Get notified when there are updates in one of your accounts
• Integrated spell checker (for the status message).
• Option to include and shorten URL.
• Includes character counter to help you stay within the character limit.
• Use Escape and Enter keys as shortcuts for canceling and sending updates respectively.

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You can monitor a particular product and the changes related to it, be it price drops, new related items or new products by the same manufacturer. If you came across an item and liked it but you’d prefer buying it later then you can set up a reminder to buy the item on the specific date.

Some of the alert types you can create:

* Search alerts: Find new items matching your search criteria
* Price drop alerts
* Reminder alerts about particular item/s
* Price Guarantee alerts: Get money back from Amazon when an item you bought drops in price
* New related item alerts
* Get alerted when the out of stock item is available again
* Get notified when a DVD comes out in high-definition format
* Keep up with the latest bestsellers in any category

It’s true that Amazon itself allows you to create alerts but Zlert goes a step further and presents more options. Hence this could be a useful service for those who buy a lot of stuff from Amazon and need to visit the site several times everyday.

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There are 6 types available: News, Blogs, Web, Comprehensive, Groups and Video. News alert monitors news sources, Blogs for tracking blogs, and so on.

Some ways to use Google Alerts:

• Stay up to date on a developing news story.
• Get latest news on a celebrity, your favorite sports team or event.
• Be the first to know when you or your website make the news.
• Stay current on a competitor.

What makes Google Alerts particularly useful is the ability to use standard Google Operands like quotation marks, OR and AND connectors. For instance setting up an alert for Clinton AND Obama will bring you all news stories that mentions both of them.

Registration is not required, all it needs is an email address where you want to receive the alerts. Though if you subscribe you will be able to manage and edit their alerts from one place.

Check out Google Alerts @ www.google.com/alerts

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There are several ways to get the alerts including email, SMS and voice messages. Depending on the alert type you’ll be presented with different choices. For instance, a wake-up call alert can be delivered only via voice message. A birthday or news alerts can be delivered via text message or email. For match scores you can select any notification method you want. Basically, available delivery methods depend on the alert type.

Getting started is very simple. First you need to sign-up and get yourself an account, it’s free. Once the account is ready you can begin adding alerts. To add an alert, simply select the alert type, fill out the required fields, and choose how you would like to get it. Click “Save” and you’re done.

You can see and manage all of the alerts you have subscribed to from MyAlerts page. Demo Girl put together a nice video screencast showing this and other Alerts.com features in action, check it out here.

Please note, Alerts.com is a free service and doesn’t charge you anything for using their service. The only charges you may incur are those from your service provider. For instance, if your mobile carrier charges you for receiving text messages then the same will apply for messages originating from Alerts.com. You can read more about it here.

Go to Alerts @ www.alerts.com

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Another really cool feature is the ability to check product prices directly from mobile phone. Find the cheapest available deal for any product from over 80.000 stores. All you need is the item’s UPC (Universal Product Code).

Here is how it works?

1. Find a product that you want to buy. You can use either its UPC code or Amazon web address/ASIN (Amazon.com only).

2. If the current price is too high for you then add it to your Waitable watchlist and set the max. price you’re willing to pay for it.

3. When the price drops below the specified amount, Waitable will send you an email.

Features:

• Price comparison and price drop notification service.
• Watch and manage as many products as you want.
• Get notified via eMail, RSS, SMS (US only).
• Access price comparison feature from mobile phone .
• Bookmarklet : Add products to your Waitable watchlist with a single click.
• Manage and edit all of your watchlist items in one place (regsitered users only).

Go to Waitable @ www.waitable.com

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It takes a couple of minutes to set it up and works with almost any carrier and mobile phone in US. First go and create a user account, next add your mobile number and connect your ahTXT account with your eBay profile. Don’t worry, the latter is done through eBay website so your eBay details won’t be revealed to ahTXT.

Once your eBay account and mobile phone are configured you can set preferred frequency and time settings for your alerts. ahTXT is a free service and doesnt’t charge anything for sending you text messages. However, depending on your mobile plan regular text messaging fees from your provider may apply.

Check out ahTXT @ www.ahtxt.com

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There are some other ways to use it as well. For instance, you can let someone know if you’re late to the meeting. But as I have mentioned above, it needs additional features. The service assumes you’re late/dead/… based on your failure to report back. But what if you simply forgot about it ?

Update: We have received email from JustInCaseDie saying that they are aware of service limitations and are working on additional features.

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Features

• Receive alerts on latest stories from news sources and blogs on your mobile phone.
• Subscribe to as many sources (RSS feeds) as you want.
• Manage and edit subscriptions online.
• Set how many times per day you want to be notified. You can also choose to get notified as soon as new stories are published.
• Option to filter feed headlines by keyword. If you would like to receive all headlines then leave it blank.
• For more information go to service FAQ section.

Fastbreak is a free service and doesn’t charge anything for sending updates. However your mobile carrier probably does, so make sure to check it out. The fastest way to figure this out would be to check how much your carrier charges you for receiving picture messages. If it’s free, so are the Fastbreak alerts.

Go to Feeds.Fastbreak @ feeds.fastbreakmobile.com

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Here are some of the ways you can use PricePinx for

1. Save money and get better deals on products.
2. Be the first to know about a sale or discount deal.
3. Monitor prices of the the items you buy with a price match guarantee.

Features

• Add products to watch list and get email alerts when prices go down
• Supports most of the major online merchants (Amazon, Apple, Best Buy, Overstock etc.)
• Browser bookmarket: Add items to the watchlist directly from the product page
• No registration is necessary, however registered users can track and manage all watched items from one location.
• Note: PricePinx doesn’t work with items which prices are calculated based on the user input (i.e. zip code, date, location, age, …). These include airline fares, hotel rates, insurance premiums and so on.

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What makes it even better, is the optional feature to filter alerts by keyword. In other words, you can set web-alerts to alert you only when new postings contain certain terms.

Other Features:

• Web-alerts text messages are free.
• To unsubscribe from any of the alerts just open the link in your text message and choose “My Alerts” option.
• Currently available only in US and Canada.
• Supported carriers: US (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel, Alltel, Metro PCS and Helio), Canada (Rogers, Fido, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Sasktel, and MTS).

Check out Web-Alerts @ [www.web-alerts.com]

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How It Works?: Basically, once you open account you can either enter birthdays manually or send mass email to all of your friends and ask them to do it.

Hi

Please click on the link below and enter your birthday into my calendar. It’s quick, easy and you’ll be helping me out:-).

http://www.birthdayalarm.com/dob/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

YourName

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