Yahoo Pipes

http://pipes.yahoo.com
Free Tech Tools to Help Librarians Cross Boundaries: Let's Chat Greg Hardin
April 2011
Who: Yahoo Pipes
Ways Librarians Might Use Pipes:
What: Pipes is a powerful composition tool to
aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content • Mash-up library social feeds
from around the web. • Mash-up journal feeds

When: Combine many feeds into one, then sort,

filter and translate it. Pros:
Geocode your favorite feeds and browse the • Powerful way to pull in many sources of
items on an interactive map. data to mash it up into one source.
Power widgets/badges on your web site.
• Simple web-based flowchart interface
Grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON,
KML, and other formats.
Cons:
Where: http://pipes.yahoo.com
• Small learning curve
Why: Pipes’ simple commands can be •Sometimes fails to load or stalls
combined together to create output that meets
your needs.

Output to: http://www.twu.edu/library/pipes.asp

© Greg Hardin, April 2011! http://pipes.yahoo.com