Yahoo Pipes - Web 2.0 through 'a series of tubes'
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February 10, 2007
Yahoo Pipes - Web 2.0 through 'a series of tubes'
Yahoo has put together an extremely clever system that lets you wire together (remix, if you like your buzzwords) a variety of web services.
An example (inspired my Bert Boerland) is a pipe that aggregates anything it can find about 'CivicActions' from eBay, Flickr, Google and Yahoo. It's a great tool, and an impressive editing UI.
Of course - the fun part is that multiple pipes can be connected together!
mike mcgrath February 11, 2007
I've been messing around with Pipes for the last 48 hours or so. Admittedly, I'm a sucker for graphical programming environments, but the logic behind Pipes was instantly clear. It's a great step forward in information management and greatly advances the current state of aggregation. No wonder O'Reilly called it a milestone!
