ifttt.com (IF This Then That) is a service allowing automation of interaction between your other services. You create rules (called “tasks” and “recipes”) to be run automatically when a certain condition is true. For instance, each time a new post is made on your blog make a new tweet and post Facebook and Linked In status [...]
Read MoreI’ve noticed a certain argument pattern that says “if people aren’t doing thing “x” on platform “y” then platform “y” is never going to succeed. For instance since no one’s doing Facebook on their television then television/internet synergy hasn’t happened yet and maybe never will; or paid media on the mobile phone hasn’t taken off [...]
Read MoreFriendster… MySpace… Facebook? In what could be one of this summer’s only worthy entertainment highlights (Inception aside), it looks as if Boss Google may be ordering up a hit on the family Zuckerberg. Under the working title “Google Me” (ala “Analyze This”), the story also features Facebook’s agrarian darling Zynga, who has left the family [...]
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