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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. YubNub? by johnseq · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I spent some time looking at it, but I couldn't figure what the advantage was over Yubnub ? ( except maybe the GUI+ the name brand/network effects )

    1. Re:YubNub? by maxume · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It doesn't really even resemble yubnub. The point of pipes is that you can pull in say 10 different rss feeds and push out a new feed containing the entries from those feeds that match a search or whatever. It isn't really anything that couldn't be done already, but it does(theoretically at this point...) offer an easy to use web based interface for putting it together, so it significantly lowers the bar.

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  2. Re:Well, I guess that proved ME wrong... by SpectreHiro · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I take it you're not a Unix user.

    | is a pipe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar

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  3. Great by MarkusQ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Great. Just what we need--yet another way to shuffle content around.

    Am I the only one that things the real bottle neck is finding the time to read and think about all this information--and that yet another layer of goo, no matter how scriptastic, isn't really going to address the fundamental problem of information overload?

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