Things have been so mad busy here of late I haven’t had time to play around with anything besides work. But I just saw that the good folks at Brickhouse had released some new Pipes Modules for the world to use.
I really like the Location pipe, it’s an input pipe that lets you enter location [...]

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Lately I’ve been thinking about serendipity in the discovery of pages while surfing the web. With all the noodling around I’ve been doing with Yahoo Pipes (bear with me, this post isn’t about Pipes but rather a lucky byproduct of how I’ve used it…), I’ve installed a few widgets on this blog - the first [...]

Categories: et cetera · feature · pipes

I’ve spent a fairly reasonable amount of time messing around with pipes and have a few broad thoughts. I think it’s an impressive technology for sure and it really lowers the barrier to entry for people to start messing around with RSS feeds. You still need to be savvy, but if you can put together [...]

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I wanted to play around some more with the fake branching I was doing with putting domains in titles (or not). I wanted to try and imitate something a litte more substantial than just playing around with text fields - so I decided to see how I could make a pipe that returned either a [...]

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See Also:
· PipeJAX my little widget to easily embed your pipes into your web page with customizable formatting.
· Using regexes for another type of pseudo branching
Ok, so I got an email today saying that Yahoo had built a new Split module (that let’s you basically clone a feed at any point in your pipe) and [...]

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UPDATE: I have also started using the Regex module to handle some basic if/else branching. See my most recent post on this.
I noticed some days back that Yahoo Pipes had added a regex module (I think this is new) and wonder of wonders they’re actually perl compatible regex’s. (Aside: remember back in the day when [...]

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Google may give me no love, but Yahoo gave me a peck on the cheek!

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I just put up my latest pipe to find similar postings. The goal is simple, it takes the first few posts of an rss feed, runs them through content analysis and for
each one of those posts it finds the two most recent search results from technorati and publishes that. I wanted to play around with [...]

Categories: javascript · pipes

The goal of this is to have an easy way to load Pipes content onto your site. It’s very configurable, so you can style it to look the way you need it to look and it fails gracefully - it only appears when/if Pipes returns some content. So if pipes is down or the [...]

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UPDATE! Thanks to kentbrewster.com for showing me the Yahoo Pipes callback feature. With this I was able to write the php mirror file out of the system and have it work purely in js. Please see my latest post with the pure js implementation.
http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/19/pipejax-pure-javascript-version-yahoo-pipes-to-ajax-bridge/

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