NotesWhen Pipes first appeared, it seemed as if the geeks were interested in building tools that increased opportunities to engage in programming the web, using the web.
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NotesYou can download your Pipe definition by specifying your Pipe-ID (_id) and the output format (_out=json) to the following end-point: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.infoUnfurl
Notes"a lifestream is basically a big bucket (i.e. web page) where all the updates and update notifications from your blog, your ADD-induced Twitter posts, your Flickr uploads etc come together in one concise way so it’s easier for others to ignore them"Unfurl
Notes"Filip has his RSS feed set up to include daily summaries of his del.icio.us activity. But I already get that data through my network feed. I just want his regular blog posts."Unfurl
Notes"The Pipes team spent a hectic 24 hours as part of the recent internal Y! hack day (video coming soon) creating an iPhone interface for Pipes."Unfurl
Notes"The Web Service module POSTs the items in a pipe in JSON format to an external web service. This allows developers to extend the functionality Pipes offers to do whatever they need. The original items are replaced by the web services JSON or RSS responseUnfurl
Notes"But perhaps more significantly, to develop a mashup, you already needed to be a programmer. Yahoo! Pipes is a first step towards changing all that, creating a programmable web for everyone."FeedUnfurl
Notes"With the overwhelming majority of our content available in one syndicated form or another, I can see an increasing demand for Pipes style filtering and recombination. I doubt, in other words, that this particular business problem is the last one I’ll sUnfurl
Notes"I like the idea of turning all the data on the web into my raw material, to do with what I please. That’s the beautiful part of Pipes. Still, the more data we deposit in the hive-mind of the web, the less power we have over it."Unfurl
Notes"UNIX pipes for the most part line-oriented, they have not been readily applicable to XML processing. You'll review some existing tools that result from the many attempts to address this."Unfurl
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