Yahoo! Pipes
Posted at 3:07 pm on Friday, February 9th, 2007 | Posted in Tech
Pipes from Yahoo! is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant. This service lets you create mashups of various data sources available on the web and redirect output accordingly through a simple drag and drop editor. Its actually analogous to hotlinking of images only you can almost photoshop the image in the process.
The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line. There is a rapidly-growing body of well-structured data available online in the form of XML feeds. These feeds range from simple lists of blog entries and news stories to more structured, machine-generated data sources like the Yahoo! Maps Traffic RSS feed. Because of the dearth of tools for manipulating these data sources in meaningful ways, their use has so far largely been limited to feed readers.
I was really excited to try out the service but all I got the whole of yesterday was a lousy message saying:
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February 9th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
oye …this is far too technical, explain this is layman’s lang…n wht use does this it have for ppl like us ..who use internet as a medium to just read data.
February 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Suppose you visit about 10 or 20 websites daily to get the latest in Sports, Politics, Technology, Gadgets etc. Every Site has RSS now-a-days. So using Pipes and these RSS feeds you can create a site/service that shows all the content in a single interface, in the format you like and to the extent you want.
We’ll thats as far as I understood this.