Yahoo! Launches Pipes Feed Mixer
Yahoo has launched an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator that is aptly named as Pipes. It will let ordinary web surfers organize information that is circulating on the internet into a custom made useful format. This content will be an interactive feed aggregator launched by yahoo available on its Yahoo Pipes website.
This is what Y! says about pipes…
Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant
A pipe creator wanted to link all the keywords on the NY Times homepages and make photos from the keywords. He linked a NY Times front page URL to the Flickr tags search, and voila, he got an output of all the pictures that were tagged with those keywords on the NY Times front-page. Users can also use ‘Pipes’ to combine products and locations to find a suitable match to suit their needs.
Yahoo is very ecstatic about this new concept and wants to go all guns blazing in the Web 2.0 arena, and this will take on major players like Google.
