The Yahoo Pipes site is flush with geeks trying to check it out, and is currently closed "Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!" says the site with an oblique reference to the bloglines plumber. however, being closed has never been a barrier to speculation, so here goes.
- The capabilities of Pipes (being able to easily grab, filter, sort and generally tie a bunch of stuff together) will boost the importance of RSS. No new site should be built without taking it into consideration
- The ability of end-users to work with RSS data in a powerful but fairly simple (I think it is still arcane for a vast majority of computer users) will lead to some interesting and probably valuable services.
- The same lowering of the technological bar will create a new generation of SPLOGs (Spam blogs)
- The same lowering of the technological bar will create simple mis-uses of other people's content. This will be difficult to sort out. The point here and above isn't that this is something new, but that it will become easier to do and thus more people will do it.
- There is nothing better to talk about since the Astronaut jokes have run their course.
- Pipes, like Unix pipes, or Grep or any other command line tool are acquired tastes and as such will be the domain of a fairly small percentage of users. They are quite important to developers though.
- Publishers (even people like me who are giving their content away) need to be concerned about how their data is being used. This gives rise to the need for a way to track-down what you have published so you know where it is ending up. Without this sort of feedback it is hard to improve. Perhaps some embedded ID that can be passed along with the feed would help with this. Sure sploggers can strip it out, but everyone else should be happy to pass it along as better content is better for everyone.
- I forget what 8 was for.
- Trusting the source may get harder. When things are mashed, it is harder to tell what is giving off the bad smell. The embedded ID would be a method to help determine TRUST.
- Like I said, EVERYONE is talking about it:
- Yahoo! pipes: Unlocking the data wev, by Jeremy Zawodney - Yahoo.
- Remixing the Web with Yahoo! Pipes by Ed Ho, one of the amazing Pipes developers
- Pipes! by Bradley Horowitz
- Yahoo Pipes - The Internet is a Series of Them by Pete Cashmore
- Yahoo Pipes by Glenn Slaven
- Review: Yahoo! Pipes by Matt Cutts of Google
- Yahoo Pipes on Gadgetopia
- Pipes: Remixing the Web by Jonathon Trevor, another of the kick-ass Pipes developers
- Yahoo! Pipes remixes the syndicated web by Niall Kennedy
- Yahoo Pipes by Anil Dash
- cat rss | ... by Ryan Kennedy of Y! Mail API fame
- yahoo pipes…rss splicing and more… by Don Loeb of Feedburner
- Yahoo! Pipes by Avi Bryant of DabbleDB
- Yahoo Launches Pipes, an RSS Remixer by Richard MacManus
- Yahoo! Launches Pipes by Nik on TechCrunch
- Yahoo! Pipes: “a milestone in the history of the internet” by Chad Dickerson of the Yahoo! Developer Network
- Pipes! by Pasha Sadri, the man behind Pipes
- Yahoo Pipes becomes belle of the RSS ball by Larry Dignan of ZDNet
- The WOW starts now: Yahoo! Pipes by Garvin Hicking
- Pipes on the Internet: Yahoo Pipes by Ajit K
- Online Visual Programming with Yahoo! Pipes by Heritage Tech
