Introducing fluxkraft - web automation simplified with Rules!

You might have heard some rumors about a tool called "fluxkraft": something like ifttt.com, but with Rules? Or what? Indeed, fluxkraft is one of our latest drunomics lab projects funded by netidee - an Austrian grant for powerful - and open - innovations, and yes - fluxkraft will be a tool for rule-based web automation, built as an open platform on top of Rules and Drupal! So, finally here are some first details on it:
 

fluxkraft

So the idea is to build an easy-to-use Drupal distribution that allows you to automate various web-based tools like Twitter, Facebook and Dropbox. Yes, you can do that already with services like ifttt.com, but fluxkraft will be an open platform, open-source and free for everyone to use and extend. That way, you can install it on your own servers and keep all the keys to your valuable data secured - and most importantly - under your control!
Then, as it's open source and will come with an API for adding connectors to new services you can simply integrate it with any service you want. So while the tool will provide some essential integrations for services like Twitter and Facebook from the start, the hope is that the community will chime in and provide connectors to a variety of different online services.

Rules?

So, how does that tie into Rules? Well, Rules already provides a solid technical base, but we'll add an API for easy integration with the external services to it - so we've got the kraft. But for the flux to gain enough strength, we'll build a new UI that makes it super simple to create, mix, and share the rules that connect the various services together. So yes - we'll build a new Rules UI! Initially, it will be built separately and power fluxkraft, but if everything works out we'll see a new Rules UI pretty soon!