Pipes: A Tool For Remixing the Web

Google Tech Talks
April 2, 2007

ABSTRACT

Pipes is a service platform for processing well-structured data such as RSS, Atom and RDF feeds in a Web-based visual programming environment. Developers can use Pipes to combine data sources and user input into mashups without having to write code. These mashups, analogous in some ways to Unix pipes, can power badges on personal publishing sites, provide core functionality for Web applications, or serve as reusable components within the Pipes platform itself.

Here's what Tim O'Reilly says about pipes: "Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and...

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[blogtips]

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

[phaobr]

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.

[Tokenhost]

Wow brilliant talk.