Yahoo Pipes
2007/02/09 filed under /webPipes is being hyped, so let's feed the hype a little.
When I first noticed the mail announcing pipes, I immediately thought: "This sounds a lot like Plagger" (a killer Perl app I should have blogged about before, sorry Tatsuhiko ;-)
Pipes does what Plagger does, only with a shiny web interface. As usual, I find eye candy fun for a second, but can never make them work ;-) So far, I have tried to create a "pipe" at Yahoo's version, without any result. With Plagger, on the other hand, I had my first example running in seconds (not counting installing half a terabyte on CPAN modules ;-)
What struck me most though, was the name. Pipes ... why pipes? Was it a direct theft from Plagger? After all, Plagger's tag line is "the UNIX pipe programming for Web 2.0". "This must piss Tatsuhiko off", I thought, but it looks like he's ok with it.
I'll have to let these pipes sink in a little. So far, I'm not too impressed by what I have seen, but since it's now up to the users, something cool might come out of this.
