Pipes gui was revolutionary when it came out and to me is invaluable. Shame to see it and rss die out from mass appeal :(
Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
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Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
#182I use Yahoo Pipes to get around Netflix's walled garden. Netflix does not believe in RSS, even though their Influencer content is not behind a subwall. I use Pipes to parse Netflix's json content and then turn it into a feed. I even created a Pipe that took any influencer ID and automatically created an RSS feed. The idea was started because Daniel Tunkelang of Netflix was very anti RSS. I showed him, but alas, no mo…
> "The idea was started because Daniel Tunkelang of Netflix was very anti RSS."
Um, what? I've never worked at Netflix, and I've never been anti-RSS. And I'm pretty sure there isn't another Daniel Tunkelang. :-)
Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Agreed
Re: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
#184pipes 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.
This is an amazing product. Have you tried talking to VCs or anyone about someonr adopting it somehow? I wonder if it would be possible to build something similar using IPV6/some kind of P2P/STUN/TURN/UDP hole punching/swarm/ethereum / any way to make a distributed system that does the same thing. Or maybe just volunteer running Node on their own VPSs.
Something like Pipes running on sandstorm.io would be nice.