UPDATED 16:03 EDT / SEPTEMBER 10 2013

NEWS

Zapier Gives Greater Control of Google Glass with 200+ Services

Zapier, a service that automates tasks between online services, has announced a tool that can connect Google Glass to any of the other 237+ services Zapier supports.

The new tool, Zapier’s Google Glass app, is designed to take full advantage of Glass apps. Mike Knoop, one of the co-founder of Zapier, said the app has added the many hidden features in how Glass works, explained what it is useful for right now, and what it could be useful for in the future.

“Before today, there were a dozen first-party apps supported by Glass. Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Path, New York Times, and a few others. Frustratingly, many of the first-party apps don’t take full advantage of Glass,” he said on the Zapier blog. “For example, the Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ apps allow you to post updates and photos to these services but there is no way to consume their content on the device. And with Gmail, you can only consume email or send from a single Gmail account.”

Knoop added some of the advantages of using the new app. The new app can alert user when their name appear in the chat room. All the alerts are grouped together so it can page through them on Glass. This Zap lets easily access raw photos from Google Glass, which means whenever a photo is shared with the Zap on Glass, it will be uploaded to Dropbox. In another scenario, user can be notified on Glass whenever someone mentions his Twitter screenname.

Among the most used applications that Zapier supports are Gmail and the entire suite of Google (Adwords, Drive, Calendar, Docs, Contacts, Talk, Tasks), Facebook, Evernote, Twitter, Highrise, Basecamp, Jabber, WordPress, Paypal, Dropbox, Box, Buffer, Yammer, Teambox, Wufoo, Zoho, Trello, Asana, Github, MailChimp and others.

The particularity of Zapier is that it is oriented to the professional sector and businesses, and one of its great advantages is that it can work with multiple accounts for each service. Another of its strengths is its interface, which is very visual and easy to use, because despite the large number of services and options, everything can be done by dragging icons to configure automated actions.

Google’s wearable technology is further going to strengthen after Google announced the opening Google Glass App Store either as an independent application store or integration with Google Play Store as early as next year. Outside of the ecosystem, Glass explorers are finding apps in unofficial channels with several Glass app directories popping up on the net. Glass Appz seems to have the most robust selection of those available with 68 Glass apps in its list.


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