For an app designer building a new experience, I'd advise that the key to generating great notifications is contextual relevancy.
The iPhone 4S has a really great new notification center where you can see recent notifications from all your apps with an always available pull-down screen.
The reaction of the typical smartphone user (many of whom can be found in the comments of the piece) is: "Great, a notification!" The reaction of anyone who has ever thought about high-speed car impacts is: "Um, that looks a little dangerous".
The web browsing is fantastic, email is great, the notification bar is tops and, well, Verizon's service rocks.
Sure, with Tweetie, TweetDeck, Birdfeed, and others, you can get Boxcar (which is an app that provides you with great push notifications for your iphone) to supplement the app's lack of push notifications.
What if an app sends me great push notifications but I don't go into the app — is that helping a developer today, or will that provide value in the future as the manners in which we use our phones evolve?
It's great; for Push Notification junkies like myself, it's a dream come true.
In rural regions, the greatest increase in notification rates since 1983 occurred in the Pilbara, Mid West & Gascoyne, and Great Southern health regions with 56-, 48-, and 45-fold increases, respectively.
"Why didn't they turn him in?... Why did they not treat Yeardley Love as their teammate, too?" Some of the parents of girls drafted for the Landon sex teams think that the punishment for those culpable should have been greater, and the notification to parents should have been more thorough.
This would be of great use to notifications.
