1. Yahoo Pipes By Hal Lindsey

2. Overview What is Yahoo Pipes? Building a Pipe Pipe Features Demo Common Uses Useful Links Questions

3. What is Yahoo Pipes? Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor Beta version released in February 2007 by Yahoo Named after “Unix Pipes”

4. Pipes Editor Pipes are created using an AJAX enabled javaScript authoring tool called the “Pipes Editor” Consists of three panes Library Pane Canvas Pane Debugger Pane

5. Building a Pipe Drag pre-configured modules onto the canvas and wire them together Each Pipe consists of two or more modules, each of which perform a specific task Each module has one or more terminals that link output to input Modules are finally linked to an output module to create the pipe

6. Pipe Features Accepts many inputs & outputs RSS, ATOM, JSON, XML Connect Pipes to other Pipes Take in user input (via form fields) Annotate items (geocode data)

7. Demo Simple pipes demodemo

8. Common uses of Pipes Customizable feed aggregator RSS without Server Side Scripts Mashup any number of data feeds Solve any number of individual problems Many more possibilities

9. Useful Links yahoo pipes documentation google tech video(by Pasha Sadri) google tech video Tutorials

10. Questions?