I was spellbound by Yahoo Pipes today. I have been wanting to organise my del.icio.us feeds for a long time, especially to filter out posts which are not in English. It was through one of the del.ici.ous post I happen to read this wonderful blog a-three-dimensional-approach-to-organizing-your-feeds-using-google-reader and learn about the Yahoo Pipe.
As a first time visitor to Yahoo Pipes what struck me is its user interface. The user interface is very lucid and elegant for the complex functionality it provides. Who would have thought such an interface would be possible over the internet couple of years ago? There is a huge collection of shared pipes which one can consume, and Good God some of them are mind boggling!
What impressed me was the pipe editor and its debugger which allows the user to view and refine the contents at every stage.
Yahoo Pipe is a mashup. A mashup is a web based application which combines data from one or more site / service and creates a new service which is not provided by the source.
More I think of mashups, more I am reminded of unix's little languages and its ability to combine small applications to achieve a larger task. I believe that we will uncover many more of these unix paradigms in the near future.
Year 2008 certainly would be the Year of the Mashups
As a first time visitor to Yahoo Pipes what struck me is its user interface. The user interface is very lucid and elegant for the complex functionality it provides. Who would have thought such an interface would be possible over the internet couple of years ago? There is a huge collection of shared pipes which one can consume, and Good God some of them are mind boggling!
What impressed me was the pipe editor and its debugger which allows the user to view and refine the contents at every stage.
Yahoo Pipe is a mashup. A mashup is a web based application which combines data from one or more site / service and creates a new service which is not provided by the source.
More I think of mashups, more I am reminded of unix's little languages and its ability to combine small applications to achieve a larger task. I believe that we will uncover many more of these unix paradigms in the near future.
Year 2008 certainly would be the Year of the Mashups
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