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If This, Then What?

Imagine that you could combine services (internet and otherwise) together like Lego blocks to create new, personalised services. If This, Then That ( ifttt )  is a new service that allows you to do just that. Through an intuitive interface  ifttt  puts the power of " Event Driven Programming " at your fingertips, letting you connect services with digital duct tape . Event driven programming can be simply broken into two stages - event selection/detection followed by event handling.  ifttt  terms these stages as triggers and tasks and provides a comprehensive list of services that you can target as a trigger or task, from Facebook and Twitter through to Google calendar events. For example, it is possible to build a service that will send a text to your mobile phone (task) if the weather service has forecast rain for the following day (trigger). The mechanism for building such a service is so simple and straight-forward that no programming knowledge is required. Trigger