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I discovered IFTTT today and would love to have a use case, I find the tech amazing.

But this might be a bit ineffective. I subscribe to a good amount of feeds, and on a good amount of items I don't read much more than the title... I don't need to be charging up my phone with a bunch of articles I wouldn't read through instapaper.

On a side note: the article mentions reblogging reblogged posts or whatever... is there some sort of loop detection for IFTTT?

One of my friends has his Google Reader feeds matched using ifttt to a IM in his GTalk account. So every time a new article arrives at google reader, he gets a ping from bot@ifttt.com .

Take a look around at the sample recipes. IFTTT is a super-powerful tool to play around with.

One of my side projects is to hook up ifttt as a webhook service.[1]

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/ifttt-webhook

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