John Sheehan : IFTTT

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This week, Ben and Hrishi talk to John Sheehan from IFTTT, where he is responsible for the platform and partners programme. IFTT is an exciting startup that gives people creative control over the flow of information in their lives.

IFTT is a simple web service that allows users to connect internet services they use and automates the interaction between these services. All these recipes are shareable and connect any service in any way that users see fit.

Founded only a couple of years ago, IFTTT went public beta in early 2011, came out of private beta in September 2011. This past April, IFTTT reached a million recipes created and launched shared recipes. John’s team would like to turn IFTTT into a platform that any IP/service provider can plug into and start getting the benefits from being one of the endpoints in the system. They are also focusing on having more channels and getting the first steps for having some sort of open so that developers can create channels, as well as making the service easier to use, and the system more reliable.

Listen to this week’s episode to learn more about what’s going on inside small companies (IFTTT has only 8 people at the moment).

If you would like to help IFTTT to grow, go and sign up now at http://ifttt.com  and start creating your own or using other people’s recipes. You can also reach John on Twitter @Johnsheehan.

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