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Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service
Just discovered this: ifttt, don't know if it's been posted before
Their UI is really neat and slick. The service automates tasks, on triggers you define (twitter, facebook, sms, email, delicious, ...).
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- ars 16y agoUpgrade browser Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser to work all its magic correctly. Your current browser isn't compatible. I'm using Iceweasel 3.6.13 which is modern enough I think. Someone has been using browser sniffing incorrectly. For the record my UserAgent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Firefox/3.0.6 (like Firefox/3.6.13) FirePHP/0.5 If you notice I enabled the option to not send Iceweasel in the useragent since it was causing problems.
- darklajid 16y agoAre you sure that this is a problem with the UserAgent? You don't happen to use NoScript and the site just doesn't degrade with a useful message?
- ars 16y agoI do have NoScript, so I turned it off, but it still happened, so that's not the problem. Are you the author of the site? You shouldn't be sniffing browsers anyway, I see you are using jQuery. Use jQuery.support instead.
- linden 16y agoMy apologies, will get the browser sniffing code fix right away!
- ars 16y agoIt does not work as of right now. Don't fix the code - get rid of it. You should not be sniffing browsers anyway, there are too many unusual cases.
- PeterMcCanney 16y agoYou might want to link to your about page rather than your homepage. I had no idea what your service did until I looked at that page. Nice idea though.
- lolizbak 16y agoCheck the about page for description of their service: http://ifttt.com/wtf http://ifttt.com/wtf "when something happens (this) then do something else (that)." Example triggers: "if I'm tagged in a photo on Facebook" or "if I tweet on twitter." Example actions: "then send me a text message" or "then create a status message on Facebook." Example channels: Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Email, Phone Call, Weather, ...
- krmmalik 16y agoLooks like a very interesting service. I can see some scope in using it for business. I'm thinking automation of certain reputation management / customer service scenarios
- darklajid 16y agoI love the idea (sort of a locale/Android for the cloud?), but was instantly reminded of "Daemon", by Daniel Suarez. 1: http://thedaemon.com/ http://thedaemon.com/
- koko775 16y agoInteresting. I've thought about doing this myself, only with a mobile component to it, and a somewhat broader scope for the data inputs.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoI go to the "about" page - http://ifttt.com/wtf http://ifttt.com/wtf - and get: Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser to work all its magic correctly. Your current browser isn't compatible. I don't expect to be told to upgrade just to find out what something does. Can't they produce an explanation that doesn't require a "spiffy new browser" ?? The blog post is simple enough to render properly in my elderly browser on my elderly machine, but it just talks aboute event-driven programming for the masses, and waiting in line for Indian food. It's April 1st, and that makes me grumpy, but there's a lesson for all people who want to present a product to the world: Make it easy for people to want your product. Don't make it hard for people to see what you do!
- linden 16y agoHi, what elderly browser are you using? Will see if I can fix.
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- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoSorry for the delay in replying - I'm now trying to remember where I posted that from ... I would guess from work, where my external, non-work browsing is done with Firefox 1.5 running on SuSE 10.3. I think. I'm not there and can't tell. Thanks for the response. I'm unlikely to see further replies, but feel free to email me.