I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Month: February 2017

Well done IFTTT, I didn’t see that coming at all

Posted by on in Tech, The Internet of ThingsLeave a comment

Today I got an email from IFTTT with news about their service. This is quite normal. They add to their service on a very regular basis. However, I wasn’t expecting the new addition to be a city. Louisville to be precise.

Whilst this was a bit of a shock, and also somewhat confusing as well initially it now makes perfect sense. IFTTT started off by connecting web apps and social services. Now it’s so much more. It moved on to hardware, IoT and more. Now it’s connecting physical locations and it makes perfect sense.

I hope that this continues. I’d like to see more and more connected cities hooked up to IFTTT, especially London. Well done IFTTT.

Rebble comes along, a glimmer of hope for Pebble owners?

Posted by on in Wearable ComputingLeave a comment

I’d been wondering when this might happen. I thought it was very likely that a group might come together to launch something for the Pebble community before they’re forsaken by Pebble, or rather Fitbit in a year.

It’s early days, but I hope that they do make something worthwhile.