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Yahoo Pipes

Posted by kdawson on from the let-the-tubes-jokes-begin dept.

ahab_2001 writes "Yahoo has introduced a new product called Pipes. It seems to be a GUI-based interface for building applications that aggregate RSS feeds and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. Sounds very cool. TechCrunch has a decent write-up, and Tim O'Reilly is all over it. The site was down for a few hours and is just back up. Has anybody tried this?" From the TechCrunch article: "Pipes is... akin to a shell scripting environment for the web rather than just a simple conduit between applications."

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  1. Priceless... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!"

    Though I thought we all knew that the Internet was a series of tubes...

  2. What's googles version going to be called?? by yecrom2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    BONG. Bigger than a pipe. And it holds more too. Just don't drink the water.

    1. Re:What's googles version going to be called?? by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

      Google is working on a big truck you can just dump stuff on.

      Sorry, I thought that quote was funnier than the "series of tubes" ones - or well, both in context.

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  3. damn right. by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Though I thought we all knew that the Internet was a series of tubes...

    Well, it's certainly not a big truck, that you can just dump something on.

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  4. Looks like yahoo by PB_TPU_40 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Needs a to run a lottery, so some lottery balls can clean out those stacked poker chips clogging the pipes.

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  5. Finally by MrYotsuya · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, an internet service even a member of Congress can understand.

  6. The site was Dugg last night by popo · · Score: 4, Funny


    How does something make it to the front of Slashdot when it the server was down *before* the story was posted here. The site went down after it was posted to Digg "upcoming" last night.

    Apparently /. editors never clicked the link to see if it actually worked.

    Editors? Editors? A Perl script could do your job better,

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    1. Re:The site was Dugg last night by DigitalReverend · · Score: 4, Funny

      Editors? Editors? I didn't know /. had editors, I thought it WAS a Perl script doing the job!

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  7. I'm working on a similar service by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except mine is called "A big truck you can just dump stuff on"

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  8. Pies, no problem by rimugu · · Score: 3, Funny

    I will just call Super Mario Bros.

  9. Well, I guess that proved ME wrong... by NerveGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... about a week ago, one of my friends called me, and said "I have a tech question for you. What are pipes?"

    I sat there for a few seconds, trying to figure out what in the world they were talking about, and finally answered "Round hollow things, like tubes."

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  10. Slashdotted! by dmuth · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I went to http://pipes.yahoo.com/, I saw this message:

    Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!

    Well, at least the folks at Yahoo have a sense of humor. :-)