Yahoo Pipes
So I was browsing through a few blogs yesterday and I came across a post by John Herren about Yahoo Pipes.
I vaguely remember hearing about this service when it first launched but originally dismissed it as being another attempt at jumping on the services band wagon.
How wrong I was!
Taking a look over at the Yahoo Pipes site you can watch a video demonstrating how to build a Pipe and some of the functionality of the very robust Yahoo Pipes editor.
First and foremost I have to hand it to Yahoo for the work they have done on the editor itself. Usually when you run across a web application that utilizes this much JavaScript you run into sluggish response and an overall sub-par user experience. This is far from the case with the Pipes editor.
Beyond the usability of the editor, I was very impressed with the array of options the editor gives you. There’s a lot of different input sources offered by the editor allowing you to pull data into your Pipe from various remote locations and perform an array of operations on the data.
Consuming your Pipes is incredibly easy now with PHP thanks in part to John Herren for making some noise on a better delivery method for PHP applications, and entirely to the Yahoo Pipes development team, who in about three days time implemented serialized PHP output for Yahoo Pipes.
This is one service that really deserves some attention. My hat goes off to the entire Yahoo Pipes development team for all of your efforts and incredibly innovative thinking.
Tags: PHP, web service, yahoo, yahoo pipes