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)
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
19. Create an integrated, branded RSS email newsletter
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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