Comments on: Yahoo Pipes a Smokin Radar Tool

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:49:45 +0000

Interesting post. I will definitely have to look into Pipes. Thanks.

By: WestCoastVinyl

WestCoastVinyl — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:05:51 +0000

Yahoo Pipes rocks! We have used it to monitor whats going on in our industry to connect with clients and competitors.

By: Courtney Engle

Courtney Engle — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:50:48 +0000

Ah… well the filtering out duplicates aspect for clients is good… as is updating what they read without resetting things for them.

By: Steve Phipps

Steve Phipps — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:59:40 +0000

Thanks for the info. Definitely going to check it out. I've been using www.individurls.com, but it looks like Pipes has a lot more functionality.

By: RedHotFranchises

RedHotFranchises — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:26:48 +0000

Nice, also similar to Microsoft Popfly.
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By: ducttape

ducttape — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:31:24 +0000

Thanks Ike, I agree – the reality of personalized RSS is available.

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:26:39 +0000

Courtney, there's an even better reason from an enterprise standpoint:

Let's say you want a dozen people in your organization to get "The Feed" of the important industry headlines. You could set them up with Reader accounts, but what if you discovered a new publication or a new keyword emerged that deserved tracking?

Either everyone has to maintain his/her own OPML, or you lose information. If you've got everyone subscribed to the Big Pipe, you can tinker with the innards and they'll be updated, none the wiser. (Actually, MUCH wiser because they are spending their time digesting content, and not learning how to be search Ninjas.)

One more example -- you're tracking Twitter accounts via RSS for influencers and competitors. Three new competitors start Twitter accounts. Do you want to explain to everyone how to add the three new feeds?

Pipes is one of THE most useful Web 2.0 services I use, because it works with everything.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:50:18 +0000

I like pipes! I wish I knew how to use it more extensively! I have spent quite a bit of time on it and use it for multiple applications.