TechNayak

[digg=http://digg.com/linux_unix/Yahoo_Pipes_4]Yahoo is really going after the mashup craze, releasing some amazing products one after the other. The latest in their offering is Yahoo Pipes. Let me be honest, I was totally astounded at the brilliance of this wonderful product. Forget sites making mashups of content, in pipes any user with little bit of an IQ can create his/her own mashup feed and publish it.

Get from any RSS /ATOM source , combine, tailor, sort add, rename and mix match all the feeds to create your own mashup of content, be it yours or someone else’s.

Pipes was inspired by Unix Pipes, which provides a mechanism of communicating between two process, share information and basically, do wonderful things. I , myself remember the time when I studied and implemented a small unix pipe as a part of my curriculum. Well , Yahoo now lets you pipe your content from many sites and lets you make a mashup of them and publish them. One look at the site and you will see people creating content like price alerts, news feed from top news sites, top blogs , property searches in and around teh bay area etc. As I always say, possibilities are endless and I appreciate yahoo for supporting such an amazing idea and giving it out to their customers.

Mashups are big and pretty soon, it will take over as home page in many browsers. Makes sense, doesn’t it? A feed of all the things that I wish to keep in touch with, this could include videos, phots, news, blogs and many more. Take a look at this pipe based mashup I created , this basically is my entire online syndicated presence. Feeds from three of my blogs and also photos from flickr.

Me Online : http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/GokWYhC_2xG_AmTHZYQMOQ

A screenshot of how I created the pipe ( marvel at the complexity !!!)