Yahoo just intro­duced Pipes, a visu­al pro­gram­ming lan­guage of sorts for manip­u­lat­ing and regur­gi­tat­ing RSS feeds. Ho hum you say? Nah, this thing has got great poten­tial even if right now it’s got a small bag of tricks.

The top exam­ple pipe right now takes the New York Times’s news feed, ana­lyzes it for key­words, then goes and fetch­es Flickr images that match the key­words.
It took me no time at all to knock togeth­er a pipe which aggre­gates com­ments from the Green­peace Ocean Defend­ers Weblog, Yahoo News from Japan men­tion­ing whales, and Ocean Defend­er com­ments from the Green­peace Forum. The pipe doesn’t do much oth­er than fetch each of the feeds and then sort the whole thing by date, but that’s func­tion­al­i­ty I can USE . Now I’ve got most of the stuff I and our Blog­ger Pos­se need to mon­i­tor on a dai­ly basis on one page instead of scat­tered in a hun­dred places on four web­sites.

Here’s what the back­end of pipes looks like, it’s drag-n-drop easy to cre­ate mod­ules and link their out­put to one anoth­er.

Here’s the raw out­put of the pipe .

And here’s what the out­put looks like styled with feed2js .

Ok, that was the prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion. Now for the fun!

One of the mod­ules is a Babelfish trans­la­tor. While mess­ing around with this, I realised you could link TWO babelfish trans­la­tion mod­ules togeth­er to take a feed from Eng­lish to, say Greek, then back to Eng­lish, with the pred­i­cat­able man­gled results.

But talk about weird sci­ence. I piped through the RSS feed from the White­house of the Shrub’s lat­est speech­es, and DAMN if they didn’t sud­den­ly look much more nat­u­ral. It was as if the pipe had sim­ply removed the pro­fes­sion­al edit­ing lay­er and brought the results back to that raw, unvar­nished “clar­i­fi­ca­tion­ing” that My Pres­i­dent does soo well.

I call it Babel­Bush!

Here’s a sam­ple:

President Attends Naturalization Ceremony — 27 Maart..2006

Pres­i­dent Bush on afore­said Mon­day, I am grate­ful for the chance the­se joy­ous and uplift­ing of tes­ti­fy­ing ceram­ics. It is inspir­ing see peo­ple of a lot of dif­fer­ent ages, rais­es a lot of dif­fer­ent coun­tries their hands and ulcers an oath cit­i­zens of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca become.

President Discusses Democracy in Iraq with the house of freedom — 29 Maart..2006

Pres­i­dent Bush on afore­said Wednes­day, the argu­ment that Iraq under Sad­dam sta­ble was and has been found one­self that sta­bil­i­ty is now in dan­ger because we removed him. Where­as the release has brought to itsown range chal­lenges, Sad­dam Hus­sein were the dis­pos­al of pow­er the nec­es­sary first step…

Author Brian Fitzgerald Posted on February 10, 2007 February 10, 2007 Categories Activism , Uncategorized

Wow! At last I got a web site from where I can actu­al­ly take help­ful infor­ma­tion regard­ing my study and knowl­edge.

always i used to read small­er arti­cles or reviews which also clear their
motive, and that is also hap­pen­ing with this arti­cle which
I am read­ing now.

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I’ll book­mark your weblog and test once more here fre­quent­ly.
I am fair­ly sure I will learn a lot of new stuff right here!
Good luck for the fol­low­ing!

Wow that was odd. I just wrote an real­ly long coment buut ater I clicked sub­mit my com­ment didn’t show up.
Grrrr… wel I’m not writ­ing all that over again. Any­way, jus want­ed to say great blog!

It’s tthe best time to make slme plans for the future and it’s time to bee hap­py.
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Per­haps you could write nex arti­cles refer­ring to this arti­cle.

I desire too read more things about it!

hey there and thank you for your infor­ma­tion ? I’ve def­i­nite­ly picked up some­thing new from right here. I did how­ev­er exper­tise a few tech­ni­cal points using this site, as I expe­ri­enced to reload the web site a lot of times pre­vi­ous to I could get it to load prop­er­ly. I had been won­der­ing if your web host­ing is OK ? Not that I am com­plain­ing, but slug­gish load­ing instances times will some­times affect your place­ment in google and can dam­age your high-qual­i­ty score if adver­tis­ing and mar­ket­ing with Adwords. Well I am adding this RSS to my email and could look out for a lot more of your respec­tive fas­ci­nat­ing con­tent. Ensure that you update this again soon..

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