Top
My Social Links
What's new
Litt reklame....
Follow me
About me
This area does not yet contain any content.


(www.visiti.no) I work for a Norwegian IT consultancy company called Visiti. The company was established the 1st of January 2009, with Software Innovation ASA as the sole owner. The company numbers 46 consultants within the fields of consultancy, system development and project management.
Visiti AS' goal is to be a renowned provider of IT consultants, primarily aimed at the banking, insurance and public sector, but also other selected businesses where IT is a critical success factor. Visiti AS delivers services and solutions based on both Microsoft and Java technology. 

I lead the company's Java division, and is also out in the field. Doing some real work, getting my hands dirty.

  

« Not so good exception handling at squarespace.com | Main | Getting started with JavaFX (in 30 minutes) »
Sunday
28Jun2009

Using Yahoo Pipes to keep everyone up to date

DateSunday, June 28, 2009 at 05:28AM

Yahoo pipes is a tool you can use to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. With the graphical user interface you can drag and drop inputs and operations into a designer, and connect them graphically. 

The output of the pipe can be read as RSS, JSON, KML and other formats as well.

One of the simplest yet  powerful uses of it, is to combine multiple RSS feeds into one.

I am now using pipes to...

  • Combine news from InfoQ, TSS, The Aquarium (Sun Glass fish Blog), Ed Burns's blog etc. etc etc. The blogs get piped into a  "recommended to read Feed"  that tmy collegues can use to keep updated. I download this feed to the Nokia E71 every hour automatically. That way, I always have fresh news to read if I have some spare time.    
  • Combine blogs written by my colleagues, both personal and work-related to encourage sharing of knowledge.  This also promotes the blogs and motivates everyone to contribute more.

 This is only scratching the surface. The Pipes Engine can read CSV files over HTTP, query Google & Flickr, sort, filter and much much more.

Using Yahoo piles in a cool way? Don't hesitate to leave a comment. 

Bookmark and Share
AuthorGlenn Bech | CommentPost a Comment |

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>