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Introduction to Yahoo! Pipes
1. Get yourself ready
• Go to pipes.yahoo.com
• Register for a Yahoo! account if you
need one
• Sign up to Yahoo! Pipes
• Click on ‘Create a pipe’
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2. Pipe Eyes:
go beyond
alerts and RSS
Paul Bradshaw
OnlineJournalismBlog.com, Twitter.com/paulbradshaw
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3. In a nutshell...
• How to bring all your searches into
one place
• How to create an email and RSS
alert
• Knowing what else Pipes can do
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4. The basics
Inputs, operators, and outputs
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5. What can you do with Pipes?
• Aggregate and mash up
• Filter
• Translate
• Map
• Sort, count and search
• Reformat, publish and distribute
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14. Trouble-shooting
RSS feed doesn’t work? Try putting it
through Feedburner.com to create a
new one
Results clustering? Use the Sort
module to put them in date order
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