Loopnote.com - Create Your Own Alerts

The idea behind this site is just so simple it’s incredibly useful: it allows users to generate personalized notification groups, that is: people can create alerts for a group of subscribers to let them know about specific issues, like when a road is closed, when a band will be playing, or what’s the topic you’ll be dealing with in your next book club session. Just generate a group in the site, and write a 100 character note, which the people in your group can hear about via IM, email, text message, RSS or the site in itself. Interestingly, the loops are open, so if you go to the site and find a loop you are interested in, you can subscribe to it and get the news on what’s happening as well. The service is free, unless your mobile company charges you any fee for receiving SMSs.

“Loopnote lets people create alerts. Say you're in a band or you own an art gallery. You can use Loopnote to alert people about an upcoming show. The way it works is simple: You create a topic like "Governor's Park Band" and let people subscribe to it. When you're ready to promote an event just post a note to your topic like "Governor's Park Band playing 2nite at 9pm, Larimer Lounge". All subscribers will receive an alert with your note. People can subscribe via email, IM, text or RSS.”

Loopnote can actually become a killer startup any of these days because it goes along with the social web wave, and it allows users to take advantage of great and simple tech resources for free, in order to help them with things that actually matter to them, like when their favorite band is playing, or what the local bar happy hours will be.

Since Loopnote can be used for actually any purpose, there could be some services that might become massive, for instance, what happens if a loop on NY road cuts comes out? Will Loopnote.com be able to deliver all the messages on time? Further, is it a dependable service?