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32 pointsdennisvdvliet20 comments

Another push notification app that I have to pay for? What was wrong with Pushover? What does Push.co offer me that will make me switch away from Pushover and switch over all my services?

Looks like they support oAuth to authorize an app to send you notifications instead of having to copy/paste/type a pin code into an app.

Seems much easier and user friendly if that is the case.

Easier when setting up via a website/frontend yes, but if I'm programming a script, I can just copy/paste the app token and user key and am done... Send a curl request and I have notifications straight away.

In case anyone is not aware of it, Jeff Miller has created twitter and RSS feeds which also provide the same info (albeit without push): http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...

The web site is unreadable on a Blackberry (not that that matters much).

What's wrong with just subscribing to the twitter feeds?

See @newsyc20, @newsyc50, @newsyc150.

What's wrong with just subscribing to the twitter feeds?

Having to use Twitter?

Interesting. Do you have a reasoned argument not to use Twitter, or are you opposed on some other grounds? I follow feeds on twitter that provide me value, and it's a great resource, so I'd be interested to hear an opposing view.

Not really, I just dislike their attitude towards third-party clients and their all-seeing button smeared across the web. They're just another data silo on the web.

Also checkout www.hnalerts.com by @robfitz

It will sms/email you when a link of your website either has been submitted to HN or reaches the frontpage.

It's actually http://hnalerts.com/ (doesn't work with the www)

Thanks for the feedback and interesting discussion about being a .co member.

Works only with iOS

btw I feel this post should at least get 50 upvotes to make sure I get a push notification about it. So please help me ;-)

Is this a Colombian company?

Apparently, they're from Amsterdam. Now the "proud to be a co" bit just confuses me.

OT, but I've been seeing the "proud to be a co" thing on a lot of .co websites. I think I saw it on 500.co, last night. Seems like .co is trying to position itself as a premier, aspirational domain.

That's odd, why would the site owners care what .co is trying to do? I don't understand that banner at all...

It's possibly a banner ad in disguise, and the .co registry using this kind of promotion as a way to legitimize their ccTLD as a gTLD. Maybe the registry is providing some kind of sponsorship or kickback. I presume it's similar in nature to the sites that display the fact they're hosted by Rackspace that you see every now and again.

Looks like you're right, the .co registry is offering some perks if you buy a .co domain, so it might be linked to that:

http://www.go.co/membership-perks/

> Is this a Colombian company?

Is this the same as "The .cc site must be from the Cocos Islands" kind of non-questions?

Only if they have a "proud to be cc" banner on their sites.

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