Yahoo! Pipes

Months back I heard that Yahoo was working on the Pipes project. I had since forgotten what it was all about, so I looked it up yesterday. The homepage for the project describes it as follows :

“Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.”

This is pretty accurate. Although, the best part about it is the interface. They’ve managed to accomplish what others have not – made it possible to create an application without writing a line of code. Their interface is intuitive, flexible, and indeed powerful . Other than watching this introductory video , I haven’t yet experienced their documentation. I created my first pipe, using the data on Craigslist. Pretty simple. Then I found someone else’s pipe that was similar but better – so I cloned it, then modified it :)

I’m an avid reader of news online, particularly topics that pertain to personal technology, web development, and software applications. So I searched the pipes library for one specific to tech news. I used the RSS output of my selected pipe to read my news this morning.

Happy computing!