Yahoo! Pipes unveiled
wow, the whole web is singing the praises of Yahoo! Tubes Pipes, a new mashup-service announced earlier today. unfortunately, the Pipes-servers haven’t been responding for most of the evening, Yahoo’s engineers have either underestimated the impact of this announcement or the ressources a service which could be described best as universal RSS-mashup-engine might suck up. however, from what I’ve seen in the short period of availability, Pipes offers a drag&drop interface which allows users to query, combine, filter, merge etc various source-feeds into one output-feed. besides pre-defined RSS-sources (including Google Base, surprisingly), users may of course add any given RSS-feed (OPML-support seems to miss). very promising so far, lets hope the plombers fix the Pipes soon…
(screenshot courtesy of TechCrunch)
indeed an amazing toy!
seems my recently created yahoo! account isn\’t completely useless…
Hey Michael,
I think it should be fun having a community building applications based on this product. I am trying to build one such community .
Would love to know what you think…