Comments on: Yahoo Pipes for Social Media Monitoring and Business Benefit

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Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:25:40 +0000

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By: S Benton

S Benton — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:01:45 +0000

Yahoo Pipes is a great sevice. Nice post, thanks.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:12:52 +0000

Janet, Thank you, and I’m glad you are enjoying both the shared pipes and the information that I’ve been publishing along with them. I’ve found Yahoo Pipes so useful that I want other people to know how easy they are to use once you get the hang of it. I owe my introduction to Justin Kistner who gave me a quick 5 minute demo when I was first overwhelmed with all of the options, so I’m trying to pay it forward

We even had a data plumbers user group at one point which met a couple of times and fizzled out, since only about 5 of us were actively using pipes. Maybe we’ll look into starting it up again after we get through the holiday season.

You can also look forward to a few more 2 minute Yahoo Pipes demos soon. I used some time over the long holiday weekend to record the next 3 in the series: accepting user inputs, vanity feeds, and using the debugger. They should trickle out over the next 3 weeks or so.

By: Janet Johnson

Janet Johnson — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:54:32 +0000

Dawn, you’ve outlined some wonderful benefits of using Pipes to both monitor the social web and save a whole lot of time in doing so… the speed to information is why I really love Pipes. Filtering the wheat from the chaff is the hardest thing when you’re relying on raw RSS, and the biggest benefit of Pipes. Plus, they’re really fun to work with. Especially for those of us who’ve never learned to program anything before.

I’ve found that Pipes themselves are – by their very nature – social. You’ve been especially generous in sharing your Pipes with those of us who’ve dabbled in them, but are not as practiced in creating them as you are. I hope you get the recognition you deserve for sharing not only your knowledge of Pipes, as you’re doing here, but your Pipes themselves. For both, I thank you.