Not a long time back, people loved Yahoo for its a wide range of services. I still love Yahoo for its fantasy games, finance, games etc. I have been wondering why it has taken a long time to respond to Google threat. Yahoo Pipes could be one response.
While everyone loves to talk about "Web 2.0" as if it is a version of some software, here is a revolutionary technology letting users to create application out of thin air, almost. Attach any number of "pipe"s in series. Here is an example: Create pipe #1 to get results from Google Base, Filter the results in pipe #2, get a price of an item in Amazon, Ebay in pipe #3, and provide the Reviews from CNet in Pipe #4. Now you have all the data you need as a result of one Yahoo Pipe application.
Pipe has huge potential provided there are willing content providers. A new channel to sell data, a new way to create and host applications. One can create an interesting pipe to be sold to others too!
The catch is availability of content. I checked Yahoo Pipes recently and number of supported sources have not increased a lot.
After graduation..
16 years ago
