Overview of Pipes for Information Professionals

1. Yahoo! Pipes (the 7.5 minute overview for Corporate Librarians / Information Professionals) Alexander Feng

2. What is Yahoo! Pipes? “Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.” (pipes.yahoo.com) …Or to put it another way that helps us: Combines internet data from multiple sources and feeds it into one:RSS feed, web page, map, slide show, list, Sharepoint page, email newsletter, phone, Twitter, Facebook …

3. How It Helps Combines multiple RSS streams into one feed Enables custom filtering of RSS content On-the-fly translation of content Enables reformatting & publishing to other platforms / intranet (Sharepoint, email) Enables RSS for non-RSS sites Integrates with a web page easily (embed tags)

4. Three “Easy” Use Cases

5. Sample Use #1 (very easy) Combine multiple RSS feeds into one

6. Combine this content(and sort by date)

7. End result: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=72bd80d1d4cec7efa106b3ab93daaef5 (this is an RSS feed; it also can go on a webpage (embed) or in an email, to phone)

8. Sample Use #2 & #3 (easy) - Add RSS feeds that need filtering - Foreign language sources

9. Add this feed(but only add the P&G stuff) Solution: Filter by “Procter” for this feed only http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=d06de4ad3a180be12926aa106ece4a31

10. Add this French blog(but I want to read it in English) http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=821f7a4419dd4d1c36be4f49105ade65

12. Modify embedded links in RSS

13. Say, to redirect a link to Factiva instead of Lexis-Nexis

14. Merge with Geolocation and display on a map

15. Say, all the P&G news mapped by location

16. Pull from CSV or XML files

17. XBRL possibilities…

18. Using helper applications

19. Create an integrated, branded RSS email newsletter

21. Introductory Resources Pipes website: http://pipes.yahoo.com Primer on Pipes: http://www.slaw.ca/2008/06/22/yahoo-pipes-tutorial-for-feed-mixing/ Other Yahoo Pipes tutorials: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=tutorials