What is it?
Yahoo Pipes allows users to mash up the information that they use or publish into something for everyone, or just themselves.
Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.
So if you’re interested in an interactive on-line data mashup construction set, check it out and have a look at the existing pipes developers have created. I think it’s one of the coolest web apps we’ve released in a long time, and I’m not just saying that because I know the guys who built it. Not only does it make hard things easy (like Perl has done for years), the user interface kicks ass too. It’s exciting both from a technological point of view and because of the implications for the web as a whole.
Jeremy Zawodny
Even Matt Cutts chimed in on the accomplishment:
I’ll chime in that I think Yahoo pipes is a really neat idea. As every decent UNIXhead knows, pipes let you combine small command-line tools easily by routing the output of one tool into the input of another tool. For example “cat census-names | cut -d’,’ -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg” might take a list of peoples’ names, extract just the last names, sort the list, unique-ify the list and produce a count of how many times each name occurred, then sort by the biggest number. Voilà, from a raw list of names you’ve now got a list of the most popular last names. Pipes are one of the things that makes Linux/Unix roxor.
What do you think?
Is this a valuable addition to Yahoo’s search products?
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