What is Ifttt? What are the advantages and applications of ifttt?

Ifttt is the abbreviation of "if this then that". In fact, it allows your online behavior to trigger a chain reaction and make your use more convenient. Its purpose is to "Put the internet to work for you". Ifttt aims to help people use the open APIs of various websites to connect various websites or applications such as Facebook and Twitter to complete tasks, so that "everyone can become a programmer of the entire Internet without programming". Ifttt connects various information through processes, and then presents the information you want to you in a centralized manner. It solves the problem of redundant information and receiving or paying attention to important information.

IFTTT Advantages

IFTTT is thought-provoking because it provides services to users rather than products and technologies. IFTTT solves two major problems of users:

Too fragmented

Decentralization. Although cloud services have solved the cross-platform and cross-device synchronization problem of a single application, they cannot solve the decentralization problem between products, that is, a single product can only solve a single problem for users. If it is easy to handle offline: just hire one or more secretaries, and the secretaries can help with various trivial tasks; but online, it will lag behind a lot. Communication and collaboration between various products are very difficult. For example, when the number of forwardings of one of your Weibo posts reaches 10,000 times, it is quite difficult to send you a text message and take a screenshot to share on Tutu and Renren.

Complexity

RSS, API, etc. provide convenience for the integration of various services. For example, Instagram uses Twitter's API to allow users to share photos taken on Instagram to Twitter. However, this falls into the old problem of decentralization mentioned in the first point. A single product can only develop limited services using the APIs of other products. If users want to integrate various services by themselves to meet their own wishes, they will face quite complex technical difficulties, not to mention that they don't have time, because everyone is an ordinary person. We just want such a free service instead of doing it ourselves. It's that simple.

The founders of ifttt, Linden Tibbets and Jesse Tane, encountered these two major problems and decided to develop ifttt.

With its deep insight into user needs, ifttt has moved all API calls and service integration to the backend, which are handled by ifttt's engineers and programmers. What is provided to front-end users are ready-made, flexible services, which allow users to set "if...then..." conditions like "programming", allowing users to "program" the entire Internet in a very simple way. The result is automated, flexible services.

In fact, the concept of ifttt is somewhat consistent with the iCloud cloud service launched by Apple not long ago, that is, only the simplest ready-made services are presented to users, and everything else that users don’t care about is moved to the cloud or background.

IFTTT AppsEdit

Messaging apps

1. Weather – SMS: If the next day’s forecast is sunny, send me a text message to remind me to get up and run the next day

2. If today is 3 days before or during your girlfriend's period (in Google Calendar), then send a text message to remind her: Be careful of her bad temper

Greader App

1. Greader share items to Twitter

2. Send Greader shared items to Evernote / Wiznote (Weizhi)

3. Greader share items and send them to Read It Later

Other applications

1. If you publish a new blog post on your WordPress blog, sync it to services such as Evernote/Twitter/Wiznote (Weizhi)

2. If I haven’t tweeted for 30 days, then I’ll start a series of tasks: 1. Send an email to the funeral home to collect the body (you can check my Google location); 2. Automatically transfer money; 3. Publish a suicide note to tell relatives and friends to go to a certain place to pay their respects in 30 days; 4. Share a video I recorded before my death

Weibo Application

On the afternoon of October 9, 2014, the cross-platform push tool IFTTT announced on its official blog that the service has officially launched a Weibo channel, supporting mutual push between Sina Weibo and other services.

According to IFTTT, users can set up a Weibo post automatically when uploading a photo to Instagram; and automatically post a Weibo post when marking an article as liked in Pocket. Users can even set up a Weibo post automatically when a new article is added to a certain RSS subscription list, or automatically post a weather forecast on Weibo every day. In addition, users can also use IFTTT to synchronize all their Weibo posts to Google Sheets. The name of IFTTT is the abbreviation of "If This Then That". The core function of this service is to connect independent services. For example, whenever an event occurs in one service, another event can be triggered in another completely different service, and both events can be set by the user.

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