{"id":16822,"date":"2017-01-06T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16822"},"modified":"2017-01-06T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T20:08:56","slug":"stringify-automation-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/stringify-automation-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Stringify Automation Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16977\">Jeff Porten<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16977\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stringify.com\/\">Stringify<\/a> sounds to me like the Internet automation service IFTTT on steroids (and if you&rsquo;re not sure what IFTTT does, see &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/14392\">IFTTT Automates the Internet Now, but What Comes Next?<\/a>,&rdquo; 20 December 2013). IFTTT allows for one condition and one event; Stringify has multiple conditions and creates &ldquo;macros&rdquo; for the real world, like &ldquo;if it&rsquo;s after 7 PM, my motion sensor outside is tripped, and I&rsquo;m not home, turn on my lights and send me a text.&rdquo; Better yet, Stringify integrates with IFTTT so one can \ntrigger the other and vice versa. Just as with IFTTT, I&rsquo;m unclear on how Stringify plans to make money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/29\/ifttt-drops-pinboard-and-app-net-blames-them\/\">IFTTT Drops Pinboard and App.net, Blames Them<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Porten: Stringify sounds to me like the Internet automation service IFTTT on steroids (and if you&rsquo;re not sure what IFTTT does, see &ldquo;IFTTT Automates the Internet Now, but What Comes Next?,&rdquo; 20 December 2013). IFTTT allows for one condition and one event; Stringify has multiple conditions and creates &ldquo;macros&rdquo; for the real world, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[499,31,26,1457,96],"class_list":["post-16822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ifttt","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-stringify","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16823,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16822\/revisions\/16823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}