Yo notifications from sites without native apps http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/180673/02Aug2014/Do_NOT_Drink_the_Water_in_Toledo My Thu, Jul 31, 2014 "comment":http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/180606#180627 posted in another thread: q. I receive a Yo on my iPhone every time a new comment or thread post is made at ToledoTalk. It's not quite the same as "warning people of incoming missiles.":http://time.com/2983226/yo-app-israel-missile/ q.. The past two days have provided an interesting time to experiment with "this.":http://www.justyo.co/ The simple "Yo API":https://medium.com/@YoAppStatus/yo-developers-api-e7f2f0ec5c3c creates a lo-fi method to implement a smartphone notification system for a website that does not provide a native app. And apparently, a site owner does not have to create programming code to add this support. Aug 2, 2014 Yo "tweet":https://twitter.com/YoAppStatus/status/495752439031926784 q. Don't know how to code? you can still easily send your readers a Yo every time your website or blog gets updated http://www.rssyo.com/ q.. Depending upon how the site owner implements the Yo API, anyone with the "Yo app.":http://www.justyo.co/ can subscribe to the site and receive the notifications. For example with Toledo Talk, a user can receive Yos from TT by sending a Yo to user TOLEDOTALK. I don't provide a callback URL (programming stuff), so the site does not actually receive a Yo. Sending a Yo to TT just subscribes a user within the Yo service to receive notifications via Toledo Talk. When a new post is made at TT, my code makes an API call to Yo, and the Yo service sends out the notifications. Swiping the username from the app unsubscribes. Maybe some concerned agency will implement a Yo early warning alert system, regarding algae blooms. If you receive a Yo from GreenDeath, then you know that it's time to buy water. If a local entity created a blog site with daily updates about Lake Erie during the algae bloom season, then a user could be alerted to this info by multiple ways: * access the blog directly, although that's not an alert * receive an e-mail from the site when new content is added * subscribe to the blog's RSS feed * assuming the site auto-syndicated its content to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc, then a user could follow the site, using those other social media services * receive a Yo or a text message each time a new post is made, and then the user would access the site directly Such a site may offer native mobile app options too. For people without cell phones and Internet access ... I don't know. I have no idea what percentage of area residents either don't have a cell phone or don't have a way to access the Internet easily. A cell carrier and/or an Internet service provider would have to create a localized version of something like "Internet.org":http://internet.org/ to get as many people as possible connected to the Internet. But I'm guessing that such an issue would be wrought by politics. Jul 31, 2014 - Internet.org - "Introducing the Internet.org App":http://internet.org/press/announcing-the-internet-dot-org-app - for Zambia Maybe everyone around here is already easily connected to the Internet. Word traveled fast somehow very early Saturday morning about the water issue, which caused some local stores to be out of water by 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. Impressive, I think. Or did a small number of people simply by a large amount of water each? How _did_ the water ban message spread so quickly between 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. on August 2? Cellphones and social media? Mobile app notifications from Facebook, Twitter, and local media sites? I'm not that plugged in, or I sleep heavier than I realize. I just happened to wake up around 4:30 a.m., and I saw the Yo alerts on my phone, so I checked Toledo Talk first, and I saw taliesin52's thread post. That's how I first learned about the water issue. hr. my earlier comment at TT Citizens living near this issue should probably be aware of this information. We know more about Ohio State football and the Kardashians than our own local environment. We could have digested the above info one to three weeks ago, and then decided on our own whether to increase our personal water supply, especially after considering what happened in Carroll Township about a year ago. Maybe someone will create a new alert system that would at least be useful to cellphone users. I saw this suggestion somewhere. It would be similar to the Amber Alert system or the NOAA weather radio alarm system, and it would notify people about algae changes and possibly test results, assuming that it's possible to gather, synthesize, and distribute the information efficiently. It could be a daily digest that's e-mailed to subscribers during the algae season from mid-July to mid-October to keep people informed. Or a simple blog site and Twitter feed that's updated daily. An algae monitoring Twitter feed probably exists now. Anyway, going forward, if it's only August 2, and we have this algae alarm and temporary water ban, and the algae season may continue into October, then... ! posted by jr on Aug 02, 2014 at 06:04:49 pm