Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional from New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I'm also pursing PG in Management. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Yahoo Pipes!!!
My work requires me to build numerous RSS feeds, regarding stock updates, company release reports etc… A tool which i end up using extensively is Yahoo Pipes…
What is a yahoo pipes???
Yahoo! Pipes is a tool to combine, filter, aggregate, and mashup content on the internet from a variety of sources. The tool is free to use and you can see the design of anyone’s Pipe to learn how to design your own. You can mashup RSS feeds, Yahoo Maps, and more.
Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs:
- combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it.
- geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map.
- power widgets/badges on your web site.
- grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats.
You can create a Pipe in minutes and is a great tool to aggregating content on the internet into 1 simple and easy to use RSS feed. Providing a few RSS feeds you can join them and output just one feed for your RSS tool to read… With the tool, you can connect pipe segments, like Yahoo! searches, Flickr feeds, and Google Base items, creating a complex application within minutes…. Tutorials on how to use Pipes are currently not online, but are expected to be in a few days…. There is a Yahoo! discussion forum open to users that wish to discuss Pipes with other early adopters.
I find Yahoo Pipes to be very “Interesting and Innovative“… The whole idea is absolutely fantastic and something that has capability of serving as one neat tool for today’s query based web portals.
check out the service at: pipes.yahoo.com