IF THIS THEN THAT: Social Web's Duct Tape & Tumblr
ifttt is quietly building an arsenal of powerful small tools that are making them the duct tape of the social web. Just as specific tools like hammers, chisels, saws and APIs are great in the hands of a skilled craftsman/developer, duct tape can fit the bill for connecting anything to anything for the numerous unskilled. The ifttt repository for Tumblr might be where David & the Tumblr Crew mine for clues/ambassadors as they begin to embrace the developer community to create tools for the masses.
I use ifttt to work around the inoperable import-posts-from-rss feature of tumblr, for example. I have a blog called Upstreamed which I follow here at stoweboyd.com, and I have set up a ifttt recipe for new posts of non-tumblr blogs I want to follow are posted to Upstreamed. Then the posts show up in my Tumblr stream, as if Tumblr supported the idea of following non-tumblr blogs.
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