Introducing IFTTT
Channel: intentionalhonesty
Date: 2015-07-03

Introducing IFTTT

What is IFTTT. If this, then that. To handle a set of tasks on 

various sensors, cloud services, or computing devices you own.

Desirable when you want to automate notifications, or tasks. 

Supposing you want to create a log of events, or use your smartphone 

to collect information, or set up a communication task.

The IFTTT connectors are called recipes. Here are some examples

Groups of recipes with a platform in common are channels. Here are 

three channels: Twitter, MixRadio, and U.S. Independence Day.

Why I use it is to create notifications or replicate data on a 

separate cloud service provider.  In case a problem happens on one 

service, I'll have a record on a separate service. 

It's all about redundancy, business continuity, automation.  For 

example, If I retweet someone on twitter, then automatically, IFTTT 

records my retweet on a google docs spreadsheet.  

Another example is if I receive a phone call on my Samsung Verizon 

Android phone, then there will be a log of that call recorded on a 

Google docs spreadsheet.