Following a marathon session demoing Yahoo Pipes yesterday (the slides I didn’t really use but pretty much covered are available here) I thought I’d start to have a look at what would be involved in generating a Pipes2PHP, Pipes2Py, or Pipes2JS conversion tool as I’ve alluded to before (What Happens If Yahoo! Pipes Dies?)… | source : blog.ouseful.info
Paragraph level feeds, as implemented in the Digress.it WordPress theme we were developing, are keyed by URLs of the form: http://writetoreply.org/legaldeposit/feed/paragraphlevel/annex-c-online-content-to-be-published/#56 That is: http://writetoreply.org/DOCNAME/feed/paragraphlevel/PAGENAME/#PARA_NUMBER So can you guess what I’m gonna do yet…? First of all, grab the search feed for a particular query on a particular document into a Yahoo Pipe: | source : ouseful.wordpress.com
The Google spreadsheet function =importHTM(“”,”table”,N) will scrape a table from an HMTL web page into a Google spreadsheet. The URL of the target web page, and the target table element both need to be in double quotes. The number N identifies the N’th table in the page (counting starts at 0) as the target table for data scraping. | source : ouseful.wordpress.com
One of the challenges I’ve set myself this year is to write some sort of book about Yahoo Pipes. Reading Presentation Zen three or four weeks ago, I started to imagine the form such a book might take. | source : ouseful.wordpress.com
Yahoo Pipes by default uses Yahoo Maps, which is great when it comes to narratives. As you can see from the map below, each entry has a little arrow that let’s you navigate from marker to marker in a specific order. Each marker also has a number indicating it’s place in a sequence. This is nothing more than entries in a Google Calender with time/date stamps, geo info and a description, mapped automatically using Yahoo Pipes. | source : onlinejournalismblog.com
Here’s a pipe I’ve created that attempts to marshal the content from hyperlocal blogging in Birmingham and allow people only to subscribe to feeds that interest them. This is a piece of investigation and experimentation that I’ve been able to find the time to do thanks to Will Perrin and his hyperlocal blogging initiative Talk About Local. Will also helped define the reason why it would be useful to do — for what he called “lazy journalists”. | source : www.jonbounds.co.uk
TapLynx - http://www.taplynx.com - promet d'offrir un outil pour développer des applications pour l'iPhone pour les non-programmeurs. | source : www.readwriteweb.com
Anyway, for those of you who’ve never heard of it, AppJet is essentially a hosted Javascript app offering: write your Javascript app on AppJet, and run it from there as an app or call it via a web service. (For the geeks, it does persistent storage, Comet and cron too, as well as support for hosting apps yourself.) | source : ouseful.wordpress.com
This is a social media search for tracking brand or product mentions on a slew of social media sites, including flickr, twitter, friendfeed, digg etc. It taps into their search APIs directly, so it's much more immediate and comprehensive than say, Google alerts. Avlbl @ http://tinyurl.com/firehose ================================================================================== First, type all the brands & products you want to track into the first field, seperated by commas. Eg. steve+jobs, apple, iphone. Then click the "Run Pipe" button. Once the pipe runs successfully, review the results by clicking on the "list" tab. You can subscribe to email or SMS alerts by clicking on "Results by Email or Phone", or get a custom RSS feed for your terms by clicking "More Options". | source : pipes.yahoo.com