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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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  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 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. Finally by MrYotsuya · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. 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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  8. 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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  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 ;-)