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IFTTT Enables 3rd-Party Devs To Integrate the Service Into their Products (techhive.com)
IFTTT (short for If this then that) has made a name for itself as a platform for people to easily automate tasks between various apps. The company announced on Wednesday that it is now allowing developing partners to embed those IFTTT recipes directly in their own third-party apps. TechHive adds: This should enable IFTTT to expand its user base beyond the 1.4 million enthusiasts who are already using the service. Smart-home device users who own products such as the Ring video doorbell, LIFX smart bulbs, the Foobot indoor air monitor, and the Garagio smart garage-door operator will gain the capability to use IFTTT recipes directly from their product's apps starting Wednesday. You'll still need to sign up for an IFTTT account if you don't have one, but you'll be able to do that without leaving the third-party device's app. "It lets them tell the story now," said CEO Linden Tibbett. "A good analogy is to think of how PayPal handles payment... We want to be that standard for asking and granting access from one service to another."
Crestron integration!
-a.e.mossberg
Yes please! Let's have all our services use one gatekeeper / translator / intercommunicator, which is in the cloud! Oh please!
We need more computer security jobs! Keep up the good work, IFTTT people, you're growing the economy by making those jobs!
That IFTTT?
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Modern app appers use If App Then App, NOT LUDDITE IFTTT!
Apps!
The name of this organization is deceptively similar to something that sounds like the name of a standards body.
Holy shit. This is annoying as hell.
Their webpage is intentionally vague. You can't find out SHIT about it unless you sign up.
Let me save you some time guys.
What the fuck is IFTTT:
It's a tool to program common tasks within a set group of services when a trigger occurs. /r/books for "sci-fi" and send a summary to an email. Do it daily. Sum up the number of reads your IMDB review got and text it to you at 10pm so you can cry yourself to sleep.
Tasks like: scan everything in
Hey, it's bringing automation scripts to the masses. Most people won't learn Bash scripting, this is sort of like lowering the bar. Unfortunately, it doesn't give them any control and assumes they're on a phone. You hand it access to all the accounts, so it's DAMN scary from a security perspective.
Last I looked, it was very anti-thetical to open source, but if they're allowing third-party scripts, that's a small step in the right direction... And absolutely HORRIFYING from a security perspective.
It's only legit "value-add" over a set of bash scripts people can run, is that it handles the security aspect and handles ALL YOUR PASSWORDS. Which is also the part that smells the most.
I want to see a competitor though: Parse This Bullshit, Then That Bash. PFTBTTB. It carries it's own theme-song.
IFTTT + IoT = p0wn everything, everywhere, all the time!
Didn't they just finish locking a bunch of 3rd parties out? Did they decide it was hurting their business and they needed to get them back?
We are not interested in this protocol ... if it can be called that.
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In March this year, the owner of Pinboard complained about IFTTT's terms:
https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/...
What it comes down to, is that if you integrate IFTTT with your product, you have to agree to the following terms:
- You implement their API but it's not the public one, instead it's an API which is only shown after agreeing to the terms
- When they change their API, you promptly update your code as well
- You will never compete with them
- They own the rights to all content that's pumped into IFTTT
- If you add something clever to the API, they own the patents
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Wtf is Ifttt?