Yahoo! Pipes… Smokin!

Recently my old pal Peter asked me to be on an upcoming Hacker Public Radio with him, and suggested we talk about Yahoo! Pipes. Not knowing a Yahoo! Pipe from a Google Bong, I thought I better do some learning. Like anything else, I suggest studying the works of others. Example source code.. well, in this case, example flowchart pipe thingys.

I like what I see so far. Honestly, a lot of the functionality is in the applications these pipes are tapping into. Flickr and YouTube, for example, have great API’s that let people have their way with their stuff. These guys realize that accessibility and data transfer and manipulation is how their stuff is gonna rule the world. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s just now making press conferences about it. Anyway…

Anyway, I’m gonna keep playing with these so I have something intelligent to say. Well… so that I have something to say. Ok, so that Peter won’t strangle me. Plus, they are cool! Check ‘em out.