My http://IFTTT.com recipes
My http://IFTTT.com recipes
1. +Google+ to Twitter: Takes the short title of the post and the url and post to Twitter.
http://ifttt.com/recipes/18784
2. +Google+ to FaceBook: Shares the URL of the post (FaceBook will auto-generate the title and description) with the comment "My Latest G+ Post:")
http://ifttt.com/recipes/19024
3. +Google+ to Linked In: Shares the URL of the post (Linked In will auto-generate the title and description) with the comment "My Latest G+ Post:")
http://ifttt.com/recipes/19023
4. +Google+ to WordPress Blog: Shares the full content of the G+ post with the tag "iftttb" in the body of a post on the blog (with pictures) You should edit the post in wordpress to your satisfaction.
http://ifttt.com/recipes/19025
I hope you find these useful.
David
ifttt / Put the internet to work for you.
Put the internet to work for you.
You could have seen it first on Google +
If your not using If This Then That, you should
If your not using If This Then That, you should
If This Then That is a set of webapi's that allows you to interlink accounts with actions. http://ifttt.com
Why I Use IFTTT
I use ifttt in order to broadcast my message from G+ to my other social accounts. Recently I have decided that G+ will be my platform of choice for originating my content but I have felt like I just abandoned my friends and family on facebook, twitter, my blog, and IN. I didn't want to do that so I have been posting things in several areas which ment I didn't get it right all the time and left several big gaping holes in content that I sent out to my friends. This is where ifttt came to the rescue.
How I Use IFTTT
The first step is to get an RSS feed of your Google + account. I use http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/ all you have to do is enter your G+ user id into a field and it pulls back an RSS feed of your latest post.
don't know how to get your G+ ID? http://ansonalex.com/google-plus/how-do-i-find-my-google-plus-user-id-google/
Next you can either use predefined recipes or create your own custom task.
I chose to create my own as I wanted full control of the message being delivered.
The four action I have are:
G+ to Twitter: This action takes an abbreviated portion of any post in my feed and shares it plus a link to the full post on twitter.
G+ to FaceBook: This action takes the URL of the latest post and simply adds the message "My Latest G+ Post" on it. This behaves just like sharing a link on FaceBook, it will fill in the short description and url.
G+ to Linked In: this works the same as the FaceBook feed but with Linked In
G+ to my Blog: This is probably the most tricky one. I use wordpress as the backend to http://dlbates.com/blog/ so I wanted any google plus content that I tag with iftttb to post to my blog. For this I told IFTTT to search through my RSS information and if it contains the tag then post the content to my blog with a custom title and tag.
One more thing to mention is that if you do this like I have done you may want to disconnect the interlinking you may have setup through twitter and linked in or you will have duplicate post.
Enjoy
David
ifttt / Put the internet to work for you.
Put the internet to work for you.
Digital Snow
Above is another creation from Barbara Hullett her original artwork is on the right with my vectorization on the left.
This drawing was inspired by the recent weather events and modern times. The recent weather events are also known as the biggest let down in weather this century. Several counties around the triad called off school in anticipation of Snowmageddon and nothing showed up until well into the evening. Facebook and Twitter were both on fire with scowls of angry parents telling the school board and the weathermen that they had waisted their precious PTO.
I myself even got caught up in the hype staying home Monday and working remotely.
Hope all you stay warm and enjoy the imagery.
David Bates
Commented on “The Next Web Network”
Dang, First Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, and Blogspot. When will we be able to stop these guys? Not only that but they seem to always attack DNS except for the denial of service attack on twitter. I just hope for our sake it is not a group of people and just one hacker so we can shut them down.
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Commented on “The Next Web Network”
This seems exactly like the kodak patent. Kodak patented a way to view photos taken on a screen which is commonplace and a required feature on every camera device. Almost all camera companies pay some royalty to Kodak for use of this technology. This doesn’t seem odd to me as five years ago a newsfeed was not a common item and social media was barely beginning. I think it is smart of Facebook to do this and will ensure their longevity in the marketplace
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