I have had a challenging time figuring out the Yahoo Pipes technology this week... I can't seem to get the search function on the website to work; has anyone else had this experience? I'm not finding pipes that are functioning in ways that would be professionally useful to me, so I've been a bit frustrated. I did find one super neat pipe for movie trailers (I am a HUGE sucker for movie trailers... although sometimes they contain all the good parts of a movie, don't they?!):
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=9KUs2CRI3hGF2JCZ3rVd_w
I think it will be interesting to read others' experience with Pipes and see if anyone has better luck than I have had...!
I've been experimenting with Pipes and I agree, it's not the easiest tool to use unless you have some technical knowledge of online content filtering. Of course Yahoo has touted it as relatively "easy" to use, but "easy" is a relative term.
ReplyDeleteAlong with the Pipes demo on the class' Blackboard site, this Quick Vanity Feed: 2 minute Yahoo Pipes Demo found at "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHrL6DxzoLY&feature=youtube_gdata" was good enough for me to get Pipes to do some interesting stuff.