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What is Yahoo! Pipes?

Pipes is a new mashup from Yahoo! that provides a GUI for building applications that aggregate Web feeds, web pages, and other services, creating Web-based applications from various sources. At the end of the process, user can choose to publish those applications.

The site works by letting users “pipe” information from different sources and then set up rules for how that content should be modified.

Tai Tran on Yahoo! Pipes

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How to use Yahoo! Pipes

There are a series of videos to look at.

Firstly, please see the basics of Yahoo! Pipes

Other videos in the series:

• Yahoo! Pipes: Sorting, Filtering & Debugging
• Yahoo! Pipes: Yahoo! Search, Union & other people’s Pipes
• Yahoo! Pipes: Feedity
• Yahoo! Pipes: Yahoo! Buzz Through Flickr
• Yahoo! Pipes: Text Input & URL Builder
• Yahoo! Pipes: Custom module with For Each: Replace
• Location Input & String Concatenate

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