Comments on: Yahoo! Pipes: Better Feed Mixer http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Kevin http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/#comment-181263 Kevin Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:39:21 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/#comment-181263 A powerful use of Pipes that I can think of is to use it to manipulate the content of feeds, rather than just the feeds themselves. Unfortunately, this is not a current feature of Pipes, and perhaps never will be, as it would mean that Yahoo would have to pay a lot more for storage since content would need to be stored, at least temporarily, on their servers in addition to feed URLs and sets of rules. A powerful use of Pipes that I can think of is to use it to manipulate the content of feeds, rather than just the feeds themselves. Unfortunately, this is not a current feature of Pipes, and perhaps never will be, as it would mean that Yahoo would have to pay a lot more for storage since content would need to be stored, at least temporarily, on their servers in addition to feed URLs and sets of rules.

]]> By: Kevin http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/#comment-181261 Kevin Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:30:23 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/#comment-181261 One of the best uses for Pipes I have come up with so far is as a <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/RBUBVIbA2xGhShoqfOgC8A" rel="nofollow">filter</a> to a community feed aggregator focused on China-related blogs, called <a href="http://www.chinalyst.net" rel="nofollow">Chinalyst</a>. Chinalyst is useful to me because it has a Recently Popular feature. However, I already subscribe to about 50 China blogs via my feedreader and many of these same blogs appear in Chinalyst too. Using Yahoo Pipes I can filter out the items in the Recently Popular feed that I am already subscribed to and therefore have either already read or will read, and just focus on popular content that I would otherwise not be aware of. One of the best uses for Pipes I have come up with so far is as a filter to a community feed aggregator focused on China-related blogs, called Chinalyst. Chinalyst is useful to me because it has a Recently Popular feature. However, I already subscribe to about 50 China blogs via my feedreader and many of these same blogs appear in Chinalyst too. Using Yahoo Pipes I can filter out the items in the Recently Popular feed that I am already subscribed to and therefore have either already read or will read, and just focus on popular content that I would otherwise not be aware of.

]]> By: Alpesh Nakar http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/#comment-181237 Alpesh Nakar Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:06:45 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/yahoo-pipes-better-feed-mixer/#comment-181237 Hi Lorelle, Yes its kind of fun and cool! I have just created one pipe with Indian Techie Blogs. I aim to create a network of Indian Techie Blogs with this. I have similiar ideas in the 'pipe'line :-) http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/3uQ4sK_82xGXVwWZJjBjOg/run?_render=rss -Calling all Indian Tech Bloggers to contact me via the Contact Form at my blog - Hi Lorelle,

Yes its kind of fun and cool! I have just created one pipe with Indian Techie Blogs. I aim to create a network of Indian Techie Blogs with this. I have similiar ideas in the ‘pipe’line :-)

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/3uQ4sK_82xGXVwWZJjBjOg/run?_render=rss

-Calling all Indian Tech Bloggers to contact me via the Contact Form at my blog -

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