Monday, April 28, 2014

The age of mashups

Today I came across a cloud service called IFTTT - pronounced as Gift.
It stands for If This Then That.

Interestingly, it can hook up to home automation lights such as Belkin's Wemo or Phillips's Hue

It can of course connect to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Email and a whole other bunch of applications. They call these "Channels"

You can therefore, create your own  "recipes"  to create your custom function.  For example, you can do something like "If I upload a photo to Instagram, then upload that photo to Facebook"

or turn on a light at home via Hue or Wemo

Check this out.. really interesting.... !


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