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Pipes was a web application from Yahoo! that provided a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds, web pages, and other services; creating Web-based apps from various sources; and publishing those apps.
Yahoo Pipes—or, officially, Pipes by Yahoo!, a rare switcheroo of the company’s name—was a service that offered all that and more in a single platform. Individual “Pipes,” as it were, were both personal and public—the service seemed like a portent of the future that techno-utopians were then predicting.
Jun 5, 2015 · Yahoo Pipes had a bold vision of an internet-style interoperable web of data and APIs; instead we got a centralized hub and spoke system in which data access is centralized and we...
Jun 4, 2015 · Kevin Cheng, “Who created Yahoo! Pipes?” on Quora. The Yahoo! Pipes website explains that the product is “a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content...
- Pedro Valente
What Pipes is. Pipes is a spiritual successor to Yahoo! Pipes, but if you did not know that site, you can think of Pipes as a visual programing editor specialized on feeds, or a visual shell, or simply as a glorified feed configurator. Pipes gives you blocks that can fetch and create feeds, and manipulate them in various ways.
Feb 7, 2007 · Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.
Feb 11, 2007 · Yahoo Pipes is an interactive tool that enables you to combine many data feeds, like RSS, into a single aggregate. Pipes offers an intuitive visual programming field that lets you filter, remix, and mash-up these feeds to your heart’s content.
