Deep Inside Rochester

Yahoo! Pipes provides a visual editor for remixing feeds in clever and useful ways. The resulting pipes can then be added to your start page or other web pages. I currently have several pipes defined and added to my netvibes-based start page.

Prior to tools like netvibes, Google desktop, and pageflakes, I had little need or interest in feeds. Instead I used news aggregators like Daily Rotation.

The ability to customize and tailor my browsing environment with pipes and netvibes is driving my need for more sites with feeds. Over time, I suspect that I will stop visiting those sites that do not provide feeds.

Actually, what would be nice is the ability to extend Yahoo! Pipes with "adaptors" that would allow me to add my own function for converting an arbitrary url to rss output.

# posted by Bob Donovan @ 1:37 PM