You can also hook into the core update routine. (I’m looking for tutorial links, but my Google-fu is failing me this morning.)
EDIT:
See if this tutorial helps. It explains how to implement automatic upgrades for private/commercial (i.e. non-repository-hosted) Plugins.
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