More Alerts: 2.0 in 1.0 Clothes?

I've added a couple additional alerting services to my Current Awareness and Alerts Page. Trackle is another online commercial product with a free trial while TrackEngine seems to let you track up to five pages for free.

But the most interesting one was suggested to me by a founder of FollowThatPage. He mentioned using WebAgent, a site I had not seen before. This Dutch alert tool (with English and Dutch interfaces) is not only free, but it include the ability to make tracked pages public. Look through the Home Categories to see some examples of publicly tracked sites. The public community element reminds of Web 2.0 software and yet the site seems to have a more classic 1.0 design. Most of the tracked pages are .nl ones, but it is still an interesting concept.

I haven't paid much attention to Web site alerts for awhile, focusing more on RSS feeds to keep current. But there are some pages that change infrequently and do not have RSS feeds. For sites like that, these are the perfect tools to receive a notification of when the page does change.