Quote from from teh wikeh
Yahoo! Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! that provides a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. The application works by enabling users to "pipe" information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified (for example, filtering). A typical example is New York Times through Flickr, a pipe which takes The New York Times RSS feed and adds a photo from Flickr based on the keywords of each item. The site is currently in beta.
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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.
— Official Yahoo! Pipes Blog, Pipes Blog
— Official Yahoo! Pipes Blog, Pipes Blog
More I play with this, the more I love it. Since I'm too nub to use Greasemonkey properly (actually I just haven't arsed myself to, yet), this is the next best thing. It allows a fuckton of customization options. You can combine it with something like Dapp Factory (for feed scraping) to make some very awesome mashups of sites (such as SEN) that typically don't even have support for feeds.
This is the sort of shit that web 2.0 was meant for (though god I hate that term).
Oh, and some good news: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/16/craigslist-yahoo-pipes/
'bout time craigslist fucking decides to move to the 21st century.
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Feb 2 2010, 9:54 pm by Tuxedo-Templar.
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