Entries from April 2007

Create a Random Photostream With Twitter, Yahoo Pipes and Flickr

April 30th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Yahoo Pipes is versatile tool that you can use to manipulate RSS feeds in a variety of ways. Previously, we learned how to merge and sort two RSS feeds. This time, we’ll use Pipes’ “For Each: Replace” and “Content Analysis” modules to transform “random” text into images, to create a random photostream. (In later tutorials, [...]

Create Your Own MTV Music Channel with YouTube and SplashCast

April 28th, 2007 · 5 Comments

So you’re tired of music TV channels that don’t actually play any videos. You were hoping for a Joost TV invite but didn’t get one. No worries. Just create your own music channel and embed the player on your website or blog.
SplashCast from SplashCast Media is one of the coolest rich media tools around, and [...]

Yahoo Pipes: Merging RSS Web Feeds

April 13th, 2007 · 11 Comments

If you haven’t already heard about Yahoo Pipes, I’ll quickly summarize. Pipes is a “Web 2.0″ application that lets you mashup RSS/web feeds from wherever, manipulate the feed data, and spit it back out in web feed form. You can then take the result and do something else with it, such as create an HTML [...]