Get news alerts from CNN on Gtalk

To get news alerts from CNN-IBN on Gtalk, follow the steps below

1.) Add im@ibnalerts.com to your friends list in Gtalk.

im@ibnalerts.com

im@ibnalerts.com

2.) Send Help for help on various news alerts available.

Help on im@ibnalerts.com

Help on im@ibnalerts.com

3.) Follow the instructions mentioned in the help message. For e.g., to get top news from ibnlive, send top.

Top alerts

Top alerts

4.) You can even subscribe to the alerts by following the help obtained after sending subscribe to im@ibnalerts.com

Subscribing to ibnalerts.

Subscribing to ibnalerts.

I am not sure but i guess even other Jabber clients should support this feature. If you have already tried this on other Jabber clients, do comment and share with others.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Harshit

    Even this post is an exact copy. Kindly do ensure that you provide an attribution of the source in your future posts. The link for the original source for this post is
    http://technofriends.in/2008/08/07/how-to-get-news-alerts-from-cnn-ibn-on-gtalk/
    Thanks in advance,
    Vaibhav

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  2. Harshit,

    It will work any Jabber client/server. Right now the XMPP server is doing unrestricted federation.

    Thanks for the feedback,
    Shyam

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