Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service(ifttt.com)
ifttt.com
Ifttt / If This Then That, killer UI, great service
http://ifttt.com/
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I go to the "about" page - http://ifttt.com/wtf - and get:
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:
Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser
to work all its magic correctly. Your current
browser isn't compatible.
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! Upgrade browser
Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser to work
all its magic correctly. Your current browser isn't
compatible.
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
Are 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?
I 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.
Are you the author of the site? You shouldn't be sniffing browsers anyway, I see you are using jQuery. Use jQuery.support instead.
Not the author, just curious/interested. And I agree with your last two sentences..
I love the idea (sort of a locale/Android for the cloud?), but was instantly reminded of "Daemon", by Daniel Suarez.
1: http://thedaemon.com/
1: http://thedaemon.com/
Check the about page for description of their service: 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, ...
"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, ...
Looks 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
You 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.
Nice idea though.
Hi Peter, not my product, and just linked to the homepage - you're right.
By the way, love the URL of the about page : http://ifttt.com/wtf :))
By the way, love the URL of the about page : http://ifttt.com/wtf :))
Excellent idea on putting the about page front and center, thank you.
Interesting. I've thought about doing this myself, only with a mobile component to it, and a somewhat broader scope for the data inputs.
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Their UI is really neat and slick. The service automates tasks, on triggers you define (twitter, facebook, sms, email, delicious, ...).