Receive Latest News alerts and Updates on your Gtalk Client

Here is a simple and effective way to get news updates and alerts from IBN news center.In this trick,Google’s Gtalk messenger client is used to get latest breaking news alerts,this method also works with Multi protocol IM client like digsby.

First you need to have a Gtalk client (download),once you are logged into your account then you have to add im@ibnalerts.com to your contact list.After adding to the contact you can see im@ibnalerts.com to appear online.

Now,just type help in the chat box and you will get a list of menu’s to get latest news updates.

Type top and you will get the latest stories from the IBNLIVE

Here are some more keywords,just type them in your chat box (to im@ibnalerts.com ) and send the IM

sports – You will get latest sports news and alerts

biz – Fresh updates in business world

ent – showbiz and Entertainment alerts

search – This one comes handy when you want to search a particular News topic,just type search + Keyword , for example – search Olympics will get you all latest hot-happening Olympic news.

subscribe – It will help you to get subscribed to particular news topic and the news will automatically appear on your Gtalk Window.You can also unsubscribe from news alert by sending unsubscribe to im@ibnalerts.com

You can also subscribe to live alerts by entering the following keywords :

s top -  will subscribe you to breaking news and top stories

s sports – will subscribe you to sports alerts

s biz – will subscribe you to business alerts

s ent -  will subscribe you to showbiz alerts

s all – will subscribe you to all IBNLive alerts

To unsubscribe from any of the alerts just add us to the main word.(us top,us sports..)

Written by Sidharth on August 18th, 2008

Self-proclaimed geek, editor of blogote, who loves all things tech.