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Entries from February 2007

Google Spreadsheet as Pseudo-OPML for Yahoo Pipes

February 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Yahoo! Pipes doesn’t yet support OPML, so I have been noodling around with a way to maintain a list of feeds that could be used within Pipes to create a “master feed” of all items from all feeds. As it turns out, a Google spreadsheet works pretty well to get the job done.
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Tags: Feeds · How-To

Tagging, Topics, Clouds and Ontologies

February 19th, 2007 · No Comments

A mouthful’O buzzwords, eh? Bear with me…
Much has been said about tagging and tag clouds; it seems there’s no shortage of these simple ideas mostly because they provide new ways to get a glimpse of information that is traditionally difficult to understand. After all, tag clouds provide ways to make unanticipated connections with information that’s [...]

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Rattling Pipes

February 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Yahoo! Pipes has been hailed as the first Big Idea of the year and a breakthrough for mashups. It is well-deserved. That said, there are some limitations that need to be addressed.
1. First-Class Atom Support
I have read people talking about using Atom in Pipes, but I have yet to make it work [...]

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Tags: Feeds · Opinion