Just discovered this: ifttt, don't know if it's been posted before<p>Their UI is really neat and slick. The service automates tasks, on triggers you define (twitter, facebook, sms, email, delicious, ...).
I go to the "about" page - <a href="http://ifttt.com/wtf" rel="nofollow">http://ifttt.com/wtf</a> - and get:<p><pre><code> Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser
to work all its magic correctly. Your current
browser isn't compatible.
</code></pre>
I don't expect to be told to upgrade just to find out what something does. Can't they produce an explanation that doesn't require a "spiffy new browser" ?? The blog post is simple enough to render properly in my elderly browser on my elderly machine, but it just talks aboute event-driven programming for the masses, and waiting in line for Indian food.<p>It's April 1st, and that makes me grumpy, but there's a lesson for <i>all</i> people who want to present a product to the world:<p><pre><code> Make it easy for people
to want your product.
Don't make it hard for
people to see what you do!</code></pre>
<p><pre><code> Upgrade browser
Apologies, ifttt requires a spiffy new browser to work
all its magic correctly. Your current browser isn't
compatible.
</code></pre>
I'm using Iceweasel 3.6.13 which is modern enough I think.<p>Someone has been using browser sniffing incorrectly. For the record my UserAgent is:<p><pre><code> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Firefox/3.0.6 (like Firefox/3.6.13) FirePHP/0.5
</code></pre>
If you notice I enabled the option to not send Iceweasel in the useragent since it was causing problems.
I love the idea (sort of a locale/Android for the cloud?), but was instantly reminded of "Daemon", by Daniel Suarez.<p>1: <a href="http://thedaemon.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thedaemon.com/</a>
Check the about page for description of their service: <a href="http://ifttt.com/wtf" rel="nofollow">http://ifttt.com/wtf</a><p>"when something happens (this) then do something else (that)."<p>Example triggers: "if I'm tagged in a photo on Facebook" or "if I tweet on twitter."<p>Example actions: "then send me a text message" or "then create a status message on Facebook."<p>Example channels: Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Email, Phone Call, Weather, ...
Looks like a very interesting service. I can see some scope in using it for business. I'm thinking automation of certain reputation management / customer service scenarios
You might want to link to your about page rather than your homepage. I had no idea what your service did until I looked at that page.<p>Nice idea though.