Earlier, I wrote a quick sketch to show how you can use Yahoo! Pipes to build a new RSS feed summarizing recent activity on some favorite websites (in this case, web comics). That is all very well, but how do you actually use the darned thing now that you have got it? Sure, you can look at the list in the Pipes application, but that is not very convenient. Well, this post is about how you can use that pipe you have created.
I haven’t been blogging much about technology stuff, but lately I’ve been playing with some neat new technology that I think is worth writing about. There are a couple of pieces involved, so I’ll break this up over a couple of posts, but they all center around mashups, the blending of multiple data sources or services on the internet to make a new tool. There are a variety of new tools out there to make this sort of thing really easy to do. First up is Yahoo! Pipes.