Pipes: A Tool For Remixing the Web

Wow great video Google - now we know why you've gone into bed with Yahoo!

It's sad, this is recreation of effort. This is a Unix idea of decades.

If systems (for example web related systems) were build on Unix, and re-using already developed systems, stuff like this would be out there __LONG__ ago.

People have a BAD habit of recreating the wheel :(

The idea of pipes is amazing (I use pipes on the shell many times to put stuff together). But I really don't think Yahoo deserves anything for this new system they've build.

Like the developer, you could write Perl scripts to process feeds and combine them using file pipes (Unix/Win32), but complex or generalized pipes would require parameterized shell scripts. Yahoo Pipes is a GUI that lets users accomplish the same with no experience on the command line or with writing scripts. Plus it runs on a central server, so your pipes aren't tied to a single computer, and bandwidth can be optimized with caching. It's a novel extension of prior work, not a re-creation.

Wow brilliant talk.