The yahoo tech dev / brickhouse team has launched their pipes project. It’s a kind of visual programming which lets you take feeds and web services, manipulate them, and then create new data. Unfortunately the site has gone down quickly. Just because you’ve got the yahoo borg to back you up, doesn’t mean you know how much traffic you’re going to get.
There’s plenty of good coverage of the launch from Niall Kennedy, Anil Dash, Jeremy Zawodny, Tim O’Reilly, and Brady Forrest. The site got slashdoted and Dugg, which is part of why it’s down.
I’m excited to see pipes launch. Visual programming is a really tricky problem, but making web services and feeds easily programmable will really open up new world on the web. A bottom up hackable semantic web.
Next week i’m going to start working at yahoo as part of the Tech Dev / Brickhouse where the pipes team has been working away. I’m pretty excited to be working with some amazing folks who are interested in building cool new shit.
On a related note, a site i’ve been helping out with, social networking for social change, Change.org. There’s a good summary of it on the Read Write Web.
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Hey rabble are you still writing a testing book? What is the technology behind pipes?
Congratulations
February 8th, 2007
I’m still writing the testing book, and i don’t know the tech behind pipes, but i’d guess it’s php.
February 8th, 2007
Hey – what’s your email? I ran into your site searching for brickhouse.
February 8th, 2007
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