The last 24 hours have seen a flurry of postings on the newly released Yahoo! Pipes service, an online IDE for wiring together and managing data feeds on the Web. Tim O’Reilly has called the Pipes service “a milestone in the history of the internet.” Rather than repeat, go to Jeremy Zawodny’s posting, Yahoo! Pipes: Unlocking the Data Web, where he has assembled a pretty comprehensive listing of what others are saying about this new development:
- Yahoo! Launches Pipes By Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch
- Pipes and Filters for the Internet by Tim O’Reilly, who goes on to say:
Using the Pipes editor, you can fetch any data source via its RSS, Atom or other XML feed, extract the data you want, combine it with data from another source, apply various built-in filters (sort, unique (with the “ue” this time:-), count, truncate, union, join, as well as user-defined filters), and apply simple programming tools like for loops. In short, it’s a good start on the Unix shell for mashups. It can extract dates and locations and what it considers to be “text entities.” You can solicit user input and build URL lines to submit to sites. The drag and drop editor lets you view and construct your pipeline, inspecting the data at each step in the process. And of course, you can view and copy any existing pipes, just like you could with shell scripts and later, web pages.
- Yahoo Pipes by Anil Dash
- Remixing the Web with Yahoo! Pipes by Ed Ho, one of the Pipes developers
- Pipes! by Bradley Horowitz
- Yahoo Pipes – The Internet is a Series of Them by Pete Cashmore
- Yahoo Pipes by Glenn Slaven
- Review: Yahoo! Pipes by Matt Cutts of Google
- Yahoo Pipes on Gadgetopia
- Pipes: Remixing the Web by Jonathon Trevor, another of the Pipes developers
- Yahoo! Pipes remixes the syndicated web by Niall Kennedy
- cat rss | … by Ryan Kennedy
- yahoo pipes — rss splicing and more by Don Loeb of Feedburner
- Yahoo! Pipes by Avi Bryant of DabbleDB
- Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixer by Richard MacManus
- Yahoo! Pipes: “a milestone in the history of the internet” by Chad Dickerson of the Yahoo! Developer Network.
