Entries Tagged as 'Yahoo Pipes'
Tubetorial Quick Tips – Yahoo Pipes – Clone a Pipe
June 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment
If you’ve been thinking about playing around with Yahoo Pipes but are a bit reluctant, rest assured that there’s an easy way to go about it. Pipes can be cloned with a single click, then tweaked to your liking. What’s more, if you click on a module without dragging it onto the Pipes canvas, a [...]
Technorati Blog Cosmos – Who’s Linking Who?
June 16th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Technorati, as you may know, is a combination of a blog search engine and a blog directory. While not every blogger feels it’s of any worth, there is the Technorati Top 100 Blogs list, and being on it means some measure of success. To get there, of course, you need to accumulate links to your [...]
Blog Slideshows, Part 2: Turn Text Feeds Into a Photo Slideshow
June 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment
This is a variation of the tubetorial Custom Flickr slideshows for your blog. The Yahoo Pipe there queries images directly from Flickr and manipulates the feed. The Pipe is then run and the RSS feed generated can be used in SplashCast to create an RSS-based slideshow.
What if you just want some eye candy for your [...]
Custom Yahoo Pipes/ Flickr Slideshows For Your Blog
June 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments
We’ve previously played with various Yahoo Pipes to generate Flickr-based photostreams and photologs. This Tubetorial gives a variation that produces a slideshow. That is, a single slide player will be embedded in a webpage/ blog post and display all images in that footprint.
While you can take a straight photostream and use a variety of web-based [...]
More RSS Radars: Video Search
May 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Video on the Internet is hot, hot, hot. But you already knew that. You visit loads of video sharing sites to check out what’s new. Or maybe you already monitor a few sites using their RSS feed in a feed reader. But now you’re finding it increasingly harder to keep track or find the types [...]
Tubetorial Quick Tips – Yahoo Pipes – Concatenate Strings
May 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Yahoo Pipes has numerous modules which may appear useless at first glance. However, my feeling is that they’ve been very carefully selected for some very powerful RSS feed processing. This post is part of a series of “quick tips” for Yahoo Pipes that will lead up to more complex feed manipulation.
While most Pipes modules produce [...]
Create Your RSS Radar With Yahoo Pipes
May 21st, 2007 · 8 Comments
The Closet Entrepreneur has a nice tutorial on how to find bargains with RSS feeds and a feed reader. Many bargain sites have an RSS feed, which of course you can track with your favorite feed reader. If you’re looking for something specific, though, you may not want to wade through multiple feeds and irrelevant [...]
Creating a Photolog With Tumblr and Flickr
May 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments
This tubetorial is a loose continuation of the last one, create a random photostream, which used Yahoo Pipes, Twitter and Flickr. You can either use the RSS feed from the Pipes random photostream, or choose any RSS feed that contains images, including one of the many “tag” feeds available at the Flickr site.
For simplicity on [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
