on technology
ifttt.com
if this then that is a new service whose aim is to connect various web apps together via their APIs. The concept is very simple, each site is a channel and you can create tasks between any of them, for example:
If there is a new post on an RSS feed then email me on gmail
Each channel can be a this (something to be watched for an event) and a that (something to receive data), each channel provides slightly different data to play with and each channel has different set of ‘triggers’ (e.g. search, search by tag, new, etc…) Currently there are 33 channels, ranging from Flickr to Weather to Instapaper to Gmail. You put together these into ‘tasks’.
I was going to share how I am using ifttt.com for the St Margarets Community Website a hyperlocal site I run.
MT Textile SelfLoader Error
Today I did some general CPAN update. Everything went fine, I thought, but when I attempted to publish a post to this blog with Movable Type 3.38, I kept getting this error: An error occurred: Global symbol “$nested” requires explicit…
W Wh Who Whoa!
I love Google Chrome. It has just introduced a new super-fast page loading feature called Prerendering that tries to guess what you are looking for and gets it in the background. It is really fast. However, if you type…
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Or how to submit content to a website. Aside from my day job where a manage a big, big website, I also run a small community website for where I live, the St Margarets Community Website. I try to do…
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