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WATBlog Spots 5 Useful Yahoo Pipe Applications to Ease Your Online Habitat
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How many times have you scrounged through Google to figure out how to do a certain thing the way you want? How many times have you spent sleepless nights just searching for a particular widget? Well, while I’m in no doubt that, almost always, Google must have bailed you out of your ’situation’, have you ever stopped and wondered how the developers built those widgets? no, you do not, necessarily, have to be a web developer yourself to be able to achieve a lot of those little tricks. How? Well, for that, you need to hail Yahoo Pipes!
Yahoo Pipes is a powerful mash up tool that allows you to aggregate, manipulate and compose content from around the web. It 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.
Looking at the growing popularity of Yahoo Pipes’ usage and popularity among developers, WATBlog decided to scout around a few Yahoo Pipes applications that might help ease your online life a little.
People Search
Developer - Sylvain
Description - When was the last time you met someone on Twitter or LinkedIn and wanted to know more about that person? Did you ever happen to like your chic co-worker and tried researching on the web about her preferences and emotional stature before deciding whether or not to plunge into the act of wooing her? Are you a start up founder who just got to know about a great guy to hire but would rather have some more information at hand before hiring him?
Yes, I know, Google, Orkut and LinkedIn helps you a lot in such cases. However, wouldn’t you like a one-stop shop that is very much capable of meeting your needs? People Search extracts data from Google’s Blog Search, Yooci, Sproose and MSN Live Search.
Although the results are very optimistic, it would have been great if other sources like Summize, Flickr and Friendfeed could also be included.
Online Brand Protection
Developer - b10g
Description - Have you wondered how people must have reacted to that awesome online application that you launched? What did people feel about the latest Proto meet? What is the public reaction on the latest MOTO ROKR E8 that you plan to buy? What do you normally do when such questions pop up into your mind? I’m sure the very first thing you’d do is turn to Google.
Well, here’s a wonderful mash up that allows you to search services like Google Blogs, Technorati, Ice Pulse, Yahoo, MSN & Google News and many more. All you need to do is type your query and wait for a very comprehensive result. As the name suggests, Online Brand Protection is also great in managing the online image of your brand!
Twitter Reply Sniffer, With Dates
Developer - Dawn Foster
Description - This one is going to be a run-away hit and I can bet on it. Till very long, I had been depending on the Twitterfox’s reply tab to check out my Twitter replies. It was Ankit who first showed me how to effectively use Summize (now Twitter Search) to track your replies. However, after using the techniques, I was not very pleased with the results, thanks to Summize’s habit of eating up a lot of tweets in the way.
Twitter Reply Sniffer has been configured to track many Twitter search engines at the same time and hence ensures delivery of every single reply to your browser. Of course, it doesn’t have the ability to let you know every time there is a new reply waiting, at least it doesn’t gobble them up.
Your Own Stalker Feed
Developer - Matt
Description - If you are reading this blog then there is a very high chance that you might be a blogger too. The very fact that you are reading a tech blog post reflects that you must be tech savvy yourself. So, when was the last time you felt compelled to post little icons on your blog, advertising about your Twitter URL, Facebook Status, Flickr Photostreams and the likes?
Why burden yourself and your fans any more with so many urls to track? This beautiful application allows you to mash every single feed from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, Google Reader Shared articles and even your own blog into one single feed URL that you can ask your fans to use. Save effort, save time! 
Web Comics
Developer - Adam P
Description - No post from WATBlog could ever conclude without the element of fun in it and this post is no exception. After all the techie stuff and advertising jargon that you read on WATBlog, we are sure you’d love to take a break and clear out your mind. Well, in such a case, what could be a better stress buster than some funny cartoons featuring Penny Arcade, Ctrl-Alt-Dlt, Explosm and PBF?
After witnessing what Yahoo Pipes is actually capable, you must be all worked up to start building applications on this platform (it’s not too tough, really). Well, we shall strongly suggest that you go through this little tutorial on Yahoo Pipes, from WackyB.
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