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Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by anigbrowl »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #61
idlewords wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Several reasons I can think of. For one, no one at Yahoo seemed to understand what Pipes was for (part of a wider problem where Yahoo didn't seem to know what the company was for). For another, Yahoo legal prevented us from doing any kind of long-term storage of RSS feeds. That made the service far less useful than it could have been. Finally, they didn't give it any resources at all. Management was too preoccupied w…

no one at Yahoo seemed to understand what Pipes was for What was Pipes for?

Filtering and triggering without the annoyance of having to write code in some syntax-of-the-month or dredge through poorly written documentation for half-ass APIs.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by wiresurfer »

I have been a fan of Pipes for a while. Kudos to @psadri and others who made it possible with the state of web tech back in the days. It was a very well made tool both frontend and backend wise!

I have a emotional connect with Pipes as a tool. Right out of college, and before the whole API thing was pervasive, I had leveraged pipes for so many small projects and hacks. Infact I used it in a Yahoo Hackday hack and it landed me a gig at Y!

More relevant to the present, It has been something I have mentioned to so many people who have come to me discussing UIs for automation/control systems/or to manage workflows, processes. In a way it was what noflow's UI looks like, but years in advance. In a different parallel universe, it may be the way people use APIs, or right big Haddop/Spark/Storm jobs/topologies, and the front end was open-sourced back in the day, with full integration with hadoop for job management.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by justincormack »

onli wrote: post #121
zubairov wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many see tools like http://Zapier.com or http://elastic.io (disclaimer - I'm a founder) as alternative to Pipes and IFFT.

But all of them seem to miss the focus on RSS, or even just the ability to manipulate feeds.

The whole internet misses the previous focus on RSS...

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by sanderjd »

Animats wrote: post #65

Most of what Pipes did can be done locally, in a library. FeedReader for Windows did this.[1] Unfortunately, they recently announced "Get ready for the brand new FeedReader! ... Check our site later this March for a new amazing web service, featuring industry-best RSS search and analysis." , which means it's becoming "cloud based" and probably has ads or worse. "rss.com" already went that way; they charge $6/month to…

I think your first paragraph speaks to a real tension in the world of software: web applications have enormous discoverability, immediacy, upgradeability, and (often) social collaboration advantages over native applications, but they have ongoing costs proportional to their popularity, so it's harder to run them without ulterior financial motives.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by jrochkind1 »

smacktoward wrote: post #52
psadri wrote: post #6

pipes creator here: sad to see pipes shutdown. i am surprised it lasted this long -- it was abandoned years ago. on the positive side, it is nice to see it mentioned in the same sentence as y! maps which used to be a big deal back in the day.

Pipes has long been a sort of monument to the faith of a bygone age -- the first flush of Web 2.0 optimism, when standard formats and open APIs were going to let us mix and match and mash up services of all kinds at will. That faith is dead now, of course, scoured from the earth by walled gardens and VC money. But like Catholics in Elizabethan England, some of us quietly tend our secret shrines and pray for its retur…

Yep, I was trying to figure out how to say what you just said, but you did it better.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by juxtio »

Sorry to see Pipes being sunset. It had a major design and UX influence on a number of us during the early Web 2.0 days. Kudos to the Pipes folks for a seminal creation.

On a related note, a couple of us have been hacking on a Pipes like user experience around Data Integration and Analytics with Web feeds and APIs -- we had been planning a separate announcement but thought this might be a useful place to post if there are others who are looking for alternatives. Please message me directly - my contact info is in my profile.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by xefer »

I always knew this day would eventually come. It's kind of sad.

I had created this years ago to display Twitter data using Pipes, YQL and Google Charts. I haven't had to touch it in years but it's always just quietly worked, and some people seem to like it:

http://xefer.com/twitter

; e.g.;

http://xefer.com/twitter/xefer

I liked that Pipes allowed services to be chained together driven from the browser.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by tn13 »

sirkneeland wrote: post #104
bsder wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DEC/Compaq/HP is really hard to top in the area of mismanagement.

Don't forget Nokia. Going from #1 in a market to doing so badly that you exit the market--and all in the span of 3 years--is something to behold.

Is Nokia's example really good ? Nokia remain one of the largest companies in telecom hardware provider and handsets was always a side business for them. They successfully sold it to microsoft.

Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement

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Post by girvo »

sirkneeland wrote: post #104
bsder wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DEC/Compaq/HP is really hard to top in the area of mismanagement.

Don't forget Nokia. Going from #1 in a market to doing so badly that you exit the market--and all in the span of 3 years--is something to behold.

I'm still upset by the fact that MeeGo/Maemo was killed, and Nokia sold to Microsoft. The N9 was still the best phone I've ever used, and it's UX ideas are still the simplest and most effective way of using a phone, and yet no one else has implemented it.
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