New from Yahoo! Is the Pipes service a milestone in the history of the internet?

Posted • March 17, 2007 • Comments Off

Pipes (still in beta) is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant to your project.

It’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup. Using a drag and drop editor it allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.

Yahoo! describes Pipes as follows: Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.

Sharing a Pipe: Pipes offers output in RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), JSON and Atom formats for maximum flexibility. You can also choose to publish your Pipe and share it with the world, allowing other users to clone it, add their own improvements, or use it as a subcomponent in their own creations.

This sounds like it could be a lot of fun and very enjoyable. Pipes may be the next big thing. Will we see it on your site?

You can visit Yahoo! to find out more information on Pipes.

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Gary

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