I'm obviously a big fan of Google (except for a few things here and there), and there are some projects of theirs, such as GoogleMashups and Jaiku, whose public launches I eagerly await. [ Hey Google, how about some dev accounts, huh? ;-) ] **
Meanwhile, I'm not one for thumb-twiddling, so I look around. Thus, I'm on Twitter and Yahoo! Pipes.
Yahoo! Pipes is simply fascinating, and I regret that I only started playing around with it over a year after its launch. If Google ever considered purchasing Yahoo!, Pipes was likely on its list of Pros.
The concept behind Yahoo! Pipes is simple: you stitch together various elements and transform data as it travels from one end to another. All this is done via a neat AJAX interface.
From the site:
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.
Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs.
I started on Pipes by combining Twitter JSON feeds and RSS from Prologue-themed WordPress sites, e.g. psyku.tk. It was a pretty interesting exercise, and you can see the results in my "Twitter + psy//ku" widget box.
Here's a snapshot of one of my pipes in the editor:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXO2hpZKLft9GMcaV9MzHiHxuLUrjTKyCs62TVpDz0O8jYPBLnvgjU_Ir9IzPf5FLXA1rZVOsNPhChOZpvUjn_ncS-XRChWTVQ4eJcQVwD0OIxN322bj328OQ6yP5a1RwgCWSqJpSQxgw/s320/twitter-prologue-pipes.jpg)
I'm sure I'll be working on more pipes as time allows. Check them out at pipes.yahoo.com/ibrado.
** Feb 26. I now have Mashups access.
1 comment:
Hey, Alex. I love Pipes, too. Got an ongoing side project at http://pipes.yahoo.com/iandexter. See it at work at http://iandexter.com/s/. It's in JavaScript (yuck! :P) -- comments are always welcome. ;)
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