Pipes on the Internet: Yahoo Pipes
From the Yahoo pipes website:
What Is Pipes?
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. 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.
Philosophy Behind the Project
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.
Tim O’Reilly calls it “a milestone in the history of the internet”. Why are they so important? How do they work? Here are a posts by knowledgeable people which can get you going:
Yahoo! Pipes: Unlocking the Data Web by Jeremy Zawodny by Jeremy Zawodny
Pipes and Filters for the Internet by Tim O’Reilly
The blogosphere is agog with the pipes. Click here to Search Technorati
Yahoo! Pipes: Unlocking the Data Web…
For far too long now RSS has been used in ways that don’t really tap its true potential. Being able to syndicate my favorite headlines or blog posts is great. In fact, it helped to kick off a revolution in personal on-line publishing that is still gr…
Trackback by Jeremy Zawodny's blog — February 8, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
Yahoo! Pipes…
Last night Jeremy announced Yahoo! Pipes. The news spread fast and now the site is down.
Before it went down I played with Pipes a bit last night. What amazed me the most from the start is that it isn’t a flash app, all HTML and JavaScript. Ya…
Trackback by Joseph Scott's Blog — February 8, 2007 @ 7:05 pm