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Teach Sandy to work with other websites
Sandy should be able to do things for me online. She's my assistant, and she lives online. It'd be natural for her. I should be able to give her my login and password to a site, and she should be able to use the service. There's a ton of things that she could do for me.
Sandy should be able to:
*) track packages (Fedex.com)
*) monitor plane flights (tell me if it's delayed)
*) update my Twitter account
*) monitor my Ebay auctions
*) work with Facebook
*) shop for things on Amazon
I'd love to see some "Sandy addons" that can do some of these things. Just like Jott has "Jott links", Sandy could have "Sandy links" that would allow her to interact with online services. In fact, there should be a way that people can create new addons for Sandy, just like all those Jott links and Firefox extensions. Having Sandy be able to use other online services would make her quite the useful assistant.
Sandy should be able to:
*) track packages (Fedex.com)
*) monitor plane flights (tell me if it's delayed)
*) update my Twitter account
*) monitor my Ebay auctions
*) work with Facebook
*) shop for things on Amazon
I'd love to see some "Sandy addons" that can do some of these things. Just like Jott has "Jott links", Sandy could have "Sandy links" that would allow her to interact with online services. In fact, there should be a way that people can create new addons for Sandy, just like all those Jott links and Firefox extensions. Having Sandy be able to use other online services would make her quite the useful assistant.
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Inappropriate?Pageonce does most (if not all) of that. It is also free & has an iPhone app. (Sorry Sandy!) -
Inappropriate?Alysson, thanks for the referral to pageonce. Nice service.
It seems that pageonce is a service that aggregates data from all your online accounts. It's a type of "start page". It lets you monitor the goings on of your other accounts from one place. (You don't have to sign in and visit the homepage of each individual service where you have an account.)
I can see that pageonce can pull data into it, and then display it to you. It also offers some widgets on the web page that allow you to interact with your various accounts without logging in. But does it require your involvement? Do I have to sit at my computer and interact with pageonce, or can I set it up so that it does things automatically?
1) Can I set it up so that it will do something when a predefined events occurs? Can it at least notify me (by email, etc) when something happens? Can it monitor my plane flight status and email me if it's been delayed? Can it track a package and email me when it arrives? Can it send me an sms 5 minutes before by ebay auction is set to expire?
2) Can I issue commands to it by email? (or sms, twitter, Jott, etc) Can I tell it to email me a list of all my current ebay auctions, get a list of potential gifts at Amazon.com, check the price of a certain stock, get the status of that package that I'm expecting, etc. etc. -
Inappropriate?You can use RSS feeds -> to TwitterFeed -> to Sandy, though TwitterFeed only updates every 30 minutes at the most.
I use this to do ReQall, though you could add your flight updates, ebay updates, etc that way.
