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

    Is this anything like Tubes?

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    1. Re:Tubes? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

      Very similar...if you go to pipes.yahoo.com, you get "Our pipes are clogged. We've called the plumbers!"

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    2. 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

  3. 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 zappepcs · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm hoping that soon Google will name some new service "G-Whiz"

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    2. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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 gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 2, Funny

      The biggest one I could see is that it's not named after some damned Ewok song.

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

      Sounds like blastfeed.

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

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

  8. 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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    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:The site was Dugg last night by solevita · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think you're being a little unkind. Script is such a strong word...

    4. Re:The site was Dugg last night by tygerstripes · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't be silly. With a little effort, anyone can understand what's going on in a Perl script...

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

    I will just call Super Mario Bros.

  11. 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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  12. 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.

  13. 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. :-)

  14. 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 ;-)

  15. Tinfoil hat ON! by hal2814 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So Yahoo has this great new service and has talked O'Reilly into covering it. Unfortunately, the Yahoo site promoting that technology was down before Slashdotters even got a chance to check it out. Supposedly, this is because the site was already Dug, but you and I know that Digg is really a front for the Federal government to collect all the weirdos in one online community. I think Yahoo doesn't really have a pipe system is place at all and they're just trying to build hype about it by paying off O'Reilly to write a favorable but not over-the-top review of the non-existant program. I think Pipes only exists as a screenshot right now. It's probably just another attempt to get Google to spend money on a project Yahoo has no real interest in. That way Google will never notice President Bush wiretapping Google monitoring China.

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

    Route around the damage:

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

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

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

  18. 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?

    --MarkusQ

  19. 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)