Team, I know some of you are Web freaks like I am (if you're not, please move along immediately ...there's nothing for you to see here), so I thought you might have come across
IFTTT (
http://ifttt.com). It's basically like Outlook rules on steroids, but for the whole Web and allows you to perform a pre-defined action based on a trigger. An example would be something like, "send me an email every time my name is mentioned on Twitter", or "update my Google calendar with my Foursquare checkins", or "update my Google calendar everytime my chosen weather service issues a weather warning"...you get the picture.
So, I was wondering whether we can use IFTTT to improve the FW site? Get your thinking caps on and post here if you come up with anything. If it's a good 'un I'll try and inegrate it into the site. In relation to the building blocks we're using here think RSS, Tumblr, Wordpress, Twitter and Facebook. The forum is run on Simple Machines software which may or may not have a presence on IFTTT already, but even if it doesn't, Simple Machines gives admins loads of control over RSS so we can construct an RSS feed for more or less anything you'd want (e.g. a feed of all new topics and not the replies).
We don't use FB very much, but it would be nice to update the FB page automagically to let people who don't get out much know what's going on in Filmwasters World, so that's one thing I'm thinking of already.
