Posted by Scott Clark @ 6:16 am
Yahoo Pipes - A RSS Mixerboard
Filed under: Geeked Out
Feb
8
2007
8
2007
Yahoo Pipes (beta) is a kind of RSS feed aggregator mixer board for creating mashups. It has debugging helper tools, great filtering, and then you can publish the feed to use in your favorite feed reader.
I’ve long used Geckotribe’s CARP and GROUPER to do RSS mashups, and always found there to be tremendous power in this technology. When you can group, adjust, filter and publish resulting data feeds you have enormous power - thanks to the standards of XML. UNIX Pipes (geek warning) are a way to send the output from one operation as input to another, and while the concept sounds simple, it allows for a rapid build-up of powerful and amazing tools using nothing more than simple pieces.
About 9 in 10 times I mention RSS to someone outside of the Internet industry, I have to explain it, so I don’t think we’ll be seeing a flockage of users to the new service just yet. For me, I’ll be using it to visually construct mashups I can then deploy with Carp and Grouper.
Another unexpected suprise in the Web 2.0 space. Fun!
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31
2007
[...] you use standard RSS and not some proprietary limited portal set. I’ll use Yahoo! Pipes to make a nice small RSS feed for family information (e.g. school closings, forecast, traffic) that we can glance at from any [...]