Yahoo Pipes for Non Programmers
February 14th, 2007 by Michael Gray in ToolsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
I’ve been playing with Yahoo Pipes on and off for the past few days and have to say it’s incredibly cool, wicked, and way powerful. Problem is if you aren’t a programmer it might as well be written in Woodland Elvish, cause you’ll never figure it out. I’m no master programmer but I get by and that thing just has me confused as all get out. Reminds me of Google Co-Op when it first came out, so needlessly un-user friendly only a unix admin could love it. Thank $Diety they replaced it with custom search engine which is so simple a trained monkey could use it. So c’mon somebody write the Yahoo Pipes for Non-programmers guide, I’ll personally digg it and throw some link love your way if you can help me understand it.
Update:
Added for people curious what I’m talking about look at the Techcrunch pipe and Digg user Pipe in My Pipe Account
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February 14th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Agreed 100%, MG. I was just trying to mess with it last night. I keep thinking there’s got to be something cool you can do with local search results, or maybe inbound link counts … not those two tied together, but as separate Pipes to make.
I don’t know… I haven’t seen anything impressive being done with it yet. You?
February 14th, 2007 at 4:07 am
I created a test very quickly without any problems whatsoever. The only thing I couldn’t figure out is how to quickly go from the edit screen back to the screen where you get to view the results. What exactly is it that you don’t understand about the system?
February 14th, 2007 at 9:34 am
What I don’t understand is what each little box does, and how to configure it, a walk through NOT WRITTEN IN PROGRAMMING SPEAK would be nice.
February 14th, 2007 at 10:46 am
lol I’m a programmer and ask me if I understood Y! Pipes when I opened it?
It lacks of a Intro Tour or something.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Mike, I’m getting an error message when clicking on the “My Pipe Account” link. Would like to see what you’ve done…
February 14th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Like everything else with yahoo it will sit there stagnant for years, like yahoo mail, until google came along with gmail which signaled it’s death blow.