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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. JDA (Javascript Device Architecture) by higgins · · Score: 3, Informative

    I haven't been able to try pipes yet, because the site is down. But I have a colleague who built something that sounds quite similar. It's called the Javascript Device Architecture. At the link, you can find demos and downloadable code. So, if you can't get to pipes, you could always try JDA out ;-)

  2. Re:The site was Dugg last night by metlin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, you forget the fact that a lot of folks come here for the news.

    While the site maybe down, I would not have known about it had Slashdot not posted the story.

    Sure, the link is down now, but that does not mean that you can't check it out later. When the site is back up, a lot of folks will have a look at it.

  3. Re:YubNub? by Kris_J · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sounds like blastfeed.

  4. Re:Tubes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nope, Tubes http://www.tubesnow.com/ is different: replicates/controls content via your own defined social nets

  5. Re:How do they do the connector graphics? by rapid_snail · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably using the Canvas tag - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_(HTML_element)