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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. Tubes? by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is this anything like Tubes?

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  2. Similar to QEDWiki by uss_valiant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The concept sounds very similar to QEDWiki demo video (demo video requires Flash).
    QEDWiki is an IBM product based on the Zend Framework. You can create mash-ups and other things much like by drag and drop of components, all in your browser.

  3. Re:Fix Yahoo TV by maxume · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Route around the damage:

    http://www.meevee.com/myguide.aspx

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  4. netvibes anyone by sideswipe76 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't anyone else think this is way similar to netvibes