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:
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.
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