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Archive for the ‘Yahoo! Pipes’ Category

August 10th, 2007

Feedity: Hassle Free RSS Generation

If ever your stuck with a website and have no patience in making an RSS feed try one of those automatic feed creators or generators. This one was recommend by Nicky Rice. And so far it seems to be a good tool for creating webfeeds - for any webpage.
Feedity is an RSS generator for web […]

By Juned -- 1 comment

February 24th, 2007

Understanding the Theory Behind Yahoo Pipes

Before we get into Pipes, let’s have a basic understanding of what a database is. A database is a repository of many records. Let’s say there is a database of people and each record contains first name, last name, street address, city, state, and zip. You want to find someone name Smith […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 15th, 2007

Interesting - Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database

Alex Iskold over at Read/Write Web has an interesting take on Yahoo Pipes. He sees a parallel between the relational databases in the 90’s and the web of today. Databases have fields and views that can be queried and re-mixed to display any result you are looking for. Isn’t that what the […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

February 13th, 2007

More on Yahoo Pipes

Stan Schroeder over at franticindustries has an interesting and educational article about Yahoo Pipes.
He’s impressed with Pipes, but offers this:
Unfortunately, there’s still a hefty number of bugs, and some features are sorely lacking (experienced coders will probably be most annoyed by being forced at working in a visual environment and not being able to look […]

By Cathy -- 0 comments

February 10th, 2007

A Nice Mention About The Pipes Tutorial

LH over at Angriff der Klonröhren mentioned A Feed Is Born and the Pipes Tutorial by Mr. Speaker.
Of course, since I speak only English, I had to ask what was in the post. I got a very nice reply about the post as well as the website. Here is what LH said:
Hi Cathy, I just […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 9th, 2007

A Good Yahoo Pipes Tutorial

Mr. Speaker, who has quite an eclectic blog, has written a clear tutorial on Yahoo Pipes. It is neat and easy to follow. He starts with the basics - something Yahoo sort of forgot to do, by telling us how to display one feed. I’ve always thought it important to understand the […]

By Cathy -- 1 comment

February 9th, 2007

Yahoo Pipes

There’s a lot of buzz about Yahoo Pipes. Yahoo says that Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
Here is Yahoo’s definition of this service:

Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a […]

By Cathy -- 4 comments

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