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Popfly was a more consumer centric mash up tool built by a little skunk works team inside of Microsoft's Developer Division.
The result was this: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=5ead4957874f5a670...
Which is simply the fail blog feed filtered down to only posts containing "Hacked IRL" in the subject. I have the RSS of that subscribed.
Like I said, frivolous. But it only took a few minutes to put together even having never used pipes before.
Pipes was way ahead of the curve but is also targeted at a moderately more sophisticated audience than the task triggers IFTTT and Zapier. Pipes focus is more about data collection, filtering and transformation -- like Unix pipes vs cron. BTW, both Pipes and YQL are powered by the same engine and serve billions of requests per day (for both O&O and 3rd parties).
I remember giving up on YPipes back then because it was always down (or denied access). Did more with Dapper and OK
A simple protocol based on HTTP, JSON, and WebHooks could be pretty slick.
Nobody seems to have mentioned - Kapow/OpenKapow - http://kapowsoftware.com - Dapper - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_quest_to_unlock_... I remember giving up on YPipes back then because it was always down (or denied access). Did more with Dapper and OK
The Pipes/IFTTT concept screams for a more open solution, it's too important to be proprietary. I'm always frustrated when I want to use IFTTT but they don't support the services I need. A simple protocol based on HTTP, JSON, and WebHooks could be pretty slick.
My identity isn't "free" and managing yet another account comes with a burden (another password to remember or store somewhere, another security risk).
Whoever thought that creating pipes (i.e. experimenting) without logging in was somehow detrimental to Yahoo's business interests(?), had things backwards.