Pipes!
Posted on February 7, 2007
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Tim said it better than I could ever hope to…
I’m really proud that our team has launched Pipes tonight. It’s still raw with plenty of rough edges… and it’d surprise me if more than a few folks will be able to connect-the-dots and see where this leads (… though Tim’s explaining will surely help!) Still, it was time and the concept is “ready enough” to unleash IMHO.
My parents just arrived in the Bay Area, and so tonight I’ll focus on them. In the upcoming days, I hope I’ll find time to share why I’m so excited about Pipes and proud of the team. In the meantime, go smoke a pipe!
(BTW, I recommend that you check out the “Apartments near Something” pipe for an example of a smokin’ pipe.)
The team themselves are the best resources for more info:
- Pasha, who deserves all the credit for both the idea and leading the team,
- Edward, whose passion is matched only by his technical skill,
- Jonathan, the man behind what may be the slickest AJAX application on the web,
- Kevin, who joined recently but completely took the design to a new level in a matter of weeks
- and Daniel, without whom this would be just another great idea that never would have seen the light of day.
And the endeavor was a Caterina Fake production, as all the above are members of her TechDev team.
There were many other supporters and contributors, but I’ll avoid the slippery slope of invoking them because I’m mostly clueless.
Jeremy explains it too….
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Our Pipes are clogged! We’ve called the plumbers!
LOL
Yahoo! Pipes…
Last night Jeremy announced Yahoo! Pipes. The news spread fast and now the site is down.
Before it went down I played with Pipes a bit last night. What amazed me the most from the start is that it isn’t a flash app, all HTML and JavaScript. Ya…
Our Pipes are clogged! We’ve called the plumbers!
Hey, Bradley. Great stuff! I tried it out myself and blogged about my experience. Very interesting, very interesting indeed.
Hi Bradley,
Thanks for the comment on my R/WW - its quite flattering. Being an architect, I certain realize and appreciate the power of pipes and I am looking forward to its evolution.
I do have a few questions after doing the research. First question is: will there be more effort put into dealing with less structured data, i.e. raw web pages? It seems to me a very important pieces of the puzzle…
Secondly, my background is in Java and enterprise computing. That community was known for its standards and huge push for interoperability.
Seems like something like Pipes would be a perfect thing to do jointly with others. Are there plans to bring other companies / org in on this?
Thanks very much!
Alex
Hi, congrats for the Pipes launching et all… I do have some questions that doesn’t appear on the docs so far… for instance, how do you customize the final pipe output by adding a title and so on… There are many more but that would be the most important… I already created two pipes and it seem that everything is getting better