New IFTTT compatibility boosts Amazon Echo’s usefulness–and weirdness

You know that a smart-home device or platform has arrived when it get its own IFTTT (IF This Then That) channel. Amazon’s Echo interactive speaker (or, more accurately, the interactive speaker’s built-in virtual assistant Alexa) has joined that fairly exclusive club. Launched last week, the Amazon Alexa Channel on IFTTT currently has over 100 recipes,