Yahoo! Pipes

Infobox Website
name = Yahoo! Pipes



caption = Typical Yahoo Pipes
url = http://pipes.yahoo.com/
commercial = Yes
type = Remix Developer
registration = Required
owner = Yahoo!
author = Pasha Sadri, Ed Ho, Jonathan Trevor, Kevin Cheng and Daniel Raffel
launch date = 7th February 2007
current status = Beta
revenue =

Yahoo! Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! that provides a graphical user interface for building applications that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps. The site works by letting users "pipe" information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified (e.g. filtering). A typical example is New York Times through Flickr., [cite web
url=http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/vvW1cD212xGMiR9aqu5lkA/
title=New York Times thru Flickr] a pipe which takes "The New York Times" RSS feed and adds a photo from Flickr based on the keywords of each item. The site is currently in beta.

History

Yahoo! Pipes was released to the public in beta on the 7 February 2007. It was built by Pasha Sadri, Ed Ho, Jonathan Trevor, Kevin Cheng and Daniel Raffel of Yahoo! It is described by its creators as:

ee also

*iMacros
*Mashup
*Web scraping
*Microsoft Popfly

References

External links

* [http://pipes.yahoo.com/ Pipes Official Site]
* [http://usefulvideo.blogspot.com/2007/02/yahoo-pipes-tutorials.html Yahoo Pipes Video Tutorials]
* [http://alexeysmirnov.name/blog/?page_id=198 Yahoo Pipes Tutorial: Marathons in Finland]
* [http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes_and_filte.html Tim O'Reilly blog article ]
* [http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2185589/yahoo-pipes-cracked Is Yahoo Pipes all it's cracked up to be?]
* [http://www.wackyb.co.nz/yahoo/pipes Introduction and overview guide for new users (plumbers :) from the basics to a hint of some of the more advanced options available]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8569811679113799879&hl=en Google Video Tech Talk on Yahoo! Pipes (Overview, Demo & Examples]
* [http://www.yahoopipes.co.uk/ Yahoo Pipes unofficial site - How to create a Yahoo Pipe]
* [http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/2007/05/02/pipes-adds-interactive-yahoo-maps-kml-support-and-more/ "Yahoo! Pipes Adds Geo Data Support"] - including export of data in KML for Google Earth