Use Ifttt to build bridges between different services
We are well-versed with the concept of ‘events’ and ‘responses’. When a phone rings, we pick it up; if the oven’s timer goes off, we check on our baking. The web service ‘If This, Then That’ (IFTTT) now brings this concept of events and responses to the internet.
The resource lets you pick from a large number of event sources—e-mail services, social networks, online storage sites, photo sites, RSS feeds, etc—and supports myriad actions and responses that can be carried out automatically in case a certain condition is met.
Take Facebook, for instance. It has a feature that lets people tag you in photos. This means your photo collection will not only contain the pictures you take, but also those in which you are tagged. Now consider the cloud storage service called Dropbox. Using IFTTT, you can set up an “if-then” condition that will automatically store the pictures in which you are tagged to your Dropbox account.
So whether it’s automatically updating your Twitter image when you update your Facebook image, or something more useful as getting an SMS notification of stock/currency rate updates, IFTTT can handle nearly everything.
The resource offers numerous “channels” which can serve as sources of events (most popular web services are included) and also as recipients of actions to be performed.
Web site: http://ifttt.com
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