IT Management: Yahoo Pipes: A User’s Guide
Yahoo Pipes is an interactive tool that enables you to combine many data feeds, like RSS, into a single aggregate. Pipes offers an intuitive visual programming field that lets you filter, remix, and mash-up these feeds to your heart’s content.
p2pnet.net: Yahoo Pipes data mashups.
It’s a “milestone in the history of the internet,” declares Tim O’Reilly. “It’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.”
While it’s still a bit rough around the edges, “it has enormous promise in turning the web into a programmable environment for everyone,” he states. …
Digital Trends: Mash up Your RSS Feeds with Yahoo Pipes.
The basic idea behind Pipes is to offer users a visual interface to mixing, matching, and mashing up various RSS and XML data sources available over the Internet to create new, highly-personalized data feeds. Pipes can accept user input—like names, dates, numbers, and locations—and use them to filter information from a variety of sources, construct custom searches and queries, and integrate information from multiple sources into one, concise RSS feed. Right now Pipes only outputs data in RSS format, but Yahoo hopes to expand output options to include badges, maps, and other forms of structured XML data …
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