This has been my response to ifttt thus far. Because I've got a smartphone, I've set up one task to email me something in response to an RSS feed item just to t

This has been my response to ifttt thus far. Because I've got a smartphone, I've set up one task to email me something in response to an RSS feed item just to test it out. However, the beauty of the concept as I see it is: all it takes is one killer recipe for me to get hooked. As a developer, I could probably recreate any recipe for myself pretty minimally. But I like the design of the site enough that I'm willing to save myself the minimal hassle and use their interface. If I'm not mistaken, the concept is basically the same as Yahoo Pipes, no? Or a simplified version of it. I loved the idea of Yahoo Pipes but found using it a bit of a hassle for one reason or another. ifttt has factored out the hassle. What both Yahoo Pipes and ifttt are missing which would make them much more useful to me are a way to scrape a web page (one that doesn't have an RSS feed) and then filter the information I may want out of that.