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Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...
Was Caterina Fake involved in any way with Yahoo Pipes? I believe she headed Yahoo Brickhouse at the time, but the timelines are foggy for me. Pipes is so unlike any Yahoo product.
Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...
It feels like Zapier and IFTTT are the successors to Pipes, but I never quite got the same feeling from them (maybe I haven't checked Zapier in a while). But Pipes was ahead of its time and I'm still not sure of anything that really comes close to what I could do with pipes even back then. Thank you.
Glad to see there was so much love for one of my favorite things about the internet!
A couple of fun behind the scenes stories which I think at this point are past the statute of limitations. Source: I was the Service Engineer on pipes for around a year or so. 1) When you went to the pipes landing page, there were a few demo pipes to show people what was possible. One of them combined search results from say ebay/craiglist/amazon to show prices for things. One day I was looking through the source of…
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I met one of the FireEagle devs there, at the same ETech event, and he was a really great person. We proceeded to bump into each other a few more times over the years, specifically at the Ajax Experience conferences. He really tried to convince me that Yahoo wasn't all that bad, although he eventually did have to move on. As evidenced by the previous paragraph, I've forgotten his name which makes it exceptionally dif…
Possibly Tom Coates?
Either way, the person I am doing a laughably poor job of describing was at the FireEagle event but I definitely remember him being a peer/coworker of Tom's - he wasn't the center of attention that day.
Sigh.
A couple of fun behind the scenes stories which I think at this point are past the statute of limitations. Source: I was the Service Engineer on pipes for around a year or so. 1) When you went to the pipes landing page, there were a few demo pipes to show people what was possible. One of them combined search results from say ebay/craiglist/amazon to show prices for things. One day I was looking through the source of…
Heh... just chiming in to say the affiliate person wasn’t me :-)
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Possibly Tom Coates?
Damn, that is a great guess that is so close it hurts: you've made me confident that I'm mis-remembering enough to think I'm actually talking about the FireEagle launch event. The Pipes demo was a different session, possibly a year or two earlier. Either way, the person I am doing a laughably poor job of describing was at the FireEagle event but I definitely remember him being a peer/coworker of Tom's - he wasn't the…
"So I want to personally thank Seth Fitzsimmons, Samantha Tripodi, Jeannie Yang, Chris Martin, Ben Ward, Kevin Ryan, Phil Pearson, Rabble, Arnab Nandi, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Ayman Shamma and everyone else who worked on Fire Eagle at any point in its life. I learned an enormous amount from all of you."
Thanks for posting and the nice comments. Glad to have built something that people found useful...
Was Caterina Fake involved in any way with Yahoo Pipes? I believe she headed Yahoo Brickhouse at the time, but the timelines are foggy for me. Pipes is so unlike any Yahoo product.