Ifttt: An Action Oriented Task Manager Ifttt can clearly be claimed as the next generation of task managers or to-do list apps. It goes beyond the conventional way of listing/reading a task by triggering predefined actions based on your task. For example, you can create a task that downloads all your photos from Instagram to Dropbox every 30 minutes. Similarly, you can activate an action based on a specific keyword in your Google Reader, Craigslist or Twitter feed. The whole idea is built around the “If THIS then THAT” concept. There is a whole list of channels that you can specify actions from including Gmail, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, DropBox, Evernote, LinkedIn, Posterous and many more. Features: Create tasks and trigger actions based on them.Create actions using social networks, email clients, feed readers and more.Time and keyword based triggers. Visit Iffft @ www.ifttt.com
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Bitly Launches Social Data APIs For Real-Time Seach, Attention Spikes, And Bitly has launched a set of social APIs that includes real-time search, attention spikes and metadata about URLs. Real-time search allows a user to run a query and get back the top URLs and stories. Queries can be specific phrases such as Portlandia or filtering by criteria, for example, with stories about food that people are reading about in San Francisco. The search can then be drilled down to view by multiple different categories. Attention spikes are a different take on search that more reflects what topics are getting attention. From the Bitly blog: For example, “giant squid” is bursting today because of this story: Giant Squid Captured on Film. With metadata about URLs, Bitly is providing an analysis on the content of each URL. Documentation for the APIs is available on the Bitly dev site and in its Python library. Bitly’s Hilary Mason is one of the world’s most recognized data scientists. The enterprise is of particular focus for Bitly these days.