Some pages on the internet are made by people who do not really want to engage with other proactively. As a blogger you cannot image someone writing a blog or creating a website without any RSS feeds. Most websites which are popular absolutely support RSS feeds but sometimes some websites which I might feel important and want to follow changes to do not have RSS feeds. 🙁
This is where I liked Change Detection a website to keep updated about changes.
Features of Change Detection
- Just enter the name of the website which you want to monitor changes to and also enter the email address to which the alert is sent.
- Practical use can be to actually monitor a change of policy in a company or stay updated if a software you are using has newer version. 😉
- It can also double up as Google alert but I have not tested it much. Still feel Google alerts works great.
Previously I had written about how to use Google Reader to create rss feeds of any page which can also be used to monitor a website and changes it has. Change Detection is better in the sense I do not need to your Google Reader! 😀
Do you monitor any website without RSS? Do let me know your views through your comments.
2 Comments
Thanks for the info. Aditya
Although there are very few websites who dont support RSS, I jst came accross one in the evening which does not support RSS.. I’ll jst go back to it and try ur trick… 🙂
Its not just about RSS, but very useful when TOS are updated by companies. Example one line is change you will be notified. that doesnt work with RSS feeds.