Yahoo! Pipes: Ajax Mashup Builder
Written by on February 8th, 2007 in Ajax News.
Yahoo! has a new service called Pipes that aims to make it easy to build mashups:
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.
The UI is a rich Ajax application using YUI of course. It is the kind of UI that feels like Flash, but then you do a view source and you see:
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/yahoo-dom-event_2.1.2.js”></script>
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/connection_2.1.2.js”></script>
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/animation_2.1.2.js”></script>
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/dragdrop_2.1.2.js”></script>
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/widgets/2/logger/logger_2.1.2.js”></script>
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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”/js/maxwell.js”></script>
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Is Maxwell the codename?
We are seeing more and more applications in this domain (e.g. Ning, and other systems coming up).
Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/yahoo-pipes-ajax-mashup-builder