Yahoo! pipes

[hedilbert_chee]

I forget to give my product key plz help me have my produst key my e-mail (Email address removed to prevent spam - Andy ;) )

[andy_w2s]

Piping hot...http://www.wackyb.co.nz/yahoo/pipes/Yahoo_pipes_logo.gif (http://pipes.yahoo.com/)(a DIY plumbers guide to Yahoo! pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/))

Link to: WackyB + Yahoo! Messenger & More... news feed (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=DhEM2Z_d2xGysKZy1vC6Jw)(created with Yahoo! pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes))

In the words of Yahoo.... "Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant." Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes) is a relatively new site/service from Yahoo! that has almost made it's way in through the back door (apart from the 'http://www.wackyb.co.nz/yahoo/pipes/tiy.gif (http://www.yahoo.com/)' stamp at the bottom right of the page you would probably be hard pushed to recognise it as a Yahoo! product at first). Those that really know about it (mostly programmers/technical) rave about it as the next web revolution. It wasn't the description given by Yahoo!, or the news hype that drew me into wanting to come back for a second look (and play) with Pipes, but simply the graphical user interface used to create the pipes.
When I first heard about pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes) my initial response was 'big deal'!? after all I could do the same with news reader software on my own PC. Turns out that was a rather simplistic overview at what pipes was about, even now I'm still learning or rather discovering what pipes is capable of and where it fits. Pipes lets you select a number of data (news/RSS/blogs/etc) sources and manipulate them to produce a new data source as the end result; This could be as simple as taking a news feed and cutting the number of news items down or combining news feeds from many different sources and sorting them in correct date order. Pipes offers you the ability to perform much more complex operations with filtering and programming style tools as well as converting source feeds in to other formats; Yes I can do most of what pipes has to offer with software on my own PC but doing so online as a number of benefits not least the fact I can now share the results with others or use the live data on a website.

Read Full Article.... (http://www.wackyb.co.nz/The_News/WackyB_News/Yahoo!_pipes/)

[Cchris78]

If you add that to the Newsfeeds, for my opinion. I would take out Yahoo! Answers, And also feeds from this forum, everything would be posted twice in where the person made the thread and the newsfeeds. If you keep those in the newsfeends fourum, it would fill up to fast and not fun to try to find were you left off 20 minutes ago.

Just thought I would share my views.

Chris

[andy_w2s]

hey :)

It's not about putting it on this forum... I wrote up my experiences with pipes from creating a news feed that pulls all the information that I would normally check throughout the day so it's handed to me instead of having to go look at each site/blog/forum/etc :eek:

Yahoo Pipes is a seriously cool service for joining and manipulating news to the way you want it, when you link it with other services (e.g. the yahoo messenger news reader plugin) it becomes an extremely useful tool. Actually I really can't say enough about how cool it is to see the updated data for all the latest news sitting right there in the messenger plugin window... check it out! :)

Get the plugin [here...] (http://us.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/863/locale/en)
Enter the news feed as: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=DhEM2Z_d2xGysKZy1vC6Jw&_render=rss

I have created a pipe that does not include the .co.nz forum posts that we may incorporate into this forum.. still looking into that idea, but it's more coincidence that I post my writeup of pipes at the same time bee introduced RSS feeds into the forum here :scratchchin:

Since the writeup I've also included a feed for the latest plugins (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.edit?_id=BGCdQn_h2xGxWVXPX0sBXw) for Yahoo! Messenger

One of the great things about pipes is the ability to clone an existing pipe (even if you didn't make it) and modify your local copy of it how you want. If you wanted to add the news feed I've made but minus the answers feed to your messenger you can do so this way :wave:

I've made one clone that simply cuts the feed down to the most recent 10 items (as used for the bottom of the Yahoo pipes article for the live data [here...] (http://www.wackyb.co.nz/yahoo/pipes/index.html#LiveOutput) )

- Andy :)

[direwolf]

I notice that we have five pages of new posts, over four of them are Yahoo Pipes newsfeeds. It makes looking through the new posts much harder.

[Cchris78]

It should only becouse the pipes were just added. New posts should come in slow, I hope :scared:

:eek: All the new posts are on page 6 everything from 4 months ago is on page one. **For members new feeds will be on page one from now on.

[andy_w2s]

We are still experimenting with pulling the data in from various sources in to the forum... nothing is permanent at this stage and there are problems with Yahoo Pipes going up and down today :)

[andy_w2s]

Update:

I've been playing with pipes for a while now... find the e-mail alerts to my feeds a little annoying as they tend to repeat the same news (the feeds created by pipes do not appear to contain a unique ID? or maybe it's when some feeds fail and come back again??).

The biggest problem is the feeds failing by returning an empty RSS feed :(

Reporting the problem so far has not had any response back..

http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=Pipes&fid=18240

Maybe it's my particular pipe that's causing the problem but its a shame as it means the feed I view from Yahoo! Messenger shows as 'This feed is empty' :eek:

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Previewing the pipe from the editor returns the equally unhelpful error message:

'Preview Failed problem receiving response data'

I keep reminding myself that it's Beta... but then again it could be that way for years to come.... :scratchchin:

...Yahoo! Pipes has sparked my interest in what it is capable of... the "didn't miss it until I had it" has started to show now my pipe no longer works... :sorry:

I guess a few words from any of the Yahoo Pipes staff to my forum posts or comments in the suggestion board would have been nice ;) just to know they have been seen... better yet some answers to a few of them :whistle: but then again I know how difficult it is to reply sometimes when you are hard at it developing all the time.

Turns out there are a lot of similar web applications out there.. and many more emerging on the back of Pipes "success" most lack Pipes cool interface but maybe they make up for that in performance? ...maybe it's time to check a few of them out :blank:

[swt kitten]

heya guys