What is ifttt and how does ifttt play? Step 1

This is a magic website. Well, it's not the same city as XX, but ifttt. If this then that, in May 17, the beta testing website was opened to the outside world.

In short, the concept of a website is to treat other websites that provide interfaces as trigger and action. If a specified event occurs on website, this triggers the specified action on website B to become a task ).
These websites that contribute interfaces are called channels ).

The official description provides an example of a task:

If ltibbets saves bookmarks to delicious and adds the tweet tag
Then, send a twitter message to the @ ltibbets account.

It is equivalent to implementing cross-site function calls. As long as the channel and interface are rich enough, many patterns can be combined to achieve various needs.
Moreover, even if ifttt itself is walled, it can continue to play a role as a series of web 2.0 websites.

I used ifttt to back up Twitter messages to my mailbox, and received instant Notifications via Google Talk when @ reply was received on Twitter.

I feel that the current channels and interfaces are not rich enough. The channels include date and time, telephone, and SMS (of course, they are international text messages. Otherwise, you can send Twitter via text messages in China) yahoo financial stock information, RSS feed, delicious, Dropbox, email/Gmail, Evernote, Facebook, ffffound! , Flickr, Foursquare, Google Reader, Google Talk, Instagram, instaper, LinkedIn, pinboard, posterous, read it later, Tumblr, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, YouTube, zootool.
However, some website interface functions are not practical enough. For example, only user operations can trigger an action in the Flickr interface, and changes to contacts or groups cannot be used as triggers.

Ifttt is a simple task, and there are clear prompts throughout the process. The demonstration is as follows:

1. After the task creation page is displayed, this in ifthisthenthat will be highlighted:

2. Click this to display the channel that can be used as a trigger:

3. select one of the channels, such as Twitter, and list the trigger conditions for you to choose from:

4. Select a trigger condition, for example, "Any friend sends a push", and click "create trigger ":

5. The next step is that:

6. In the channel list, select the channel for which the action is to be executed, such as email:

7. The action is to send an email to me (the email address is the address entered when ifttt is registered ):

8. The mail content and title can be further customized:

9. After all the tasks are selected, create and activate the task. At this point, the success is:

Task Management and channel activation are not demonstrated. Some services support authorization, which is still secure. However, users such as delicious and instaper must enter the user name and password to activate the channel. Therefore, security problems can only be grasped by themselves.

Add a bad message: ifttt can only be configured with up to 10 tasks...