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May 8, 2007
Pipes + Flickr = New Flickr Feature
About a week ago, I wrote:
This post is already longer than I expected, so I'll hold off on posting my personal favorite pipe until tomorrow.
And then proceeded to leave you all hanging. Sorry about that.
Here's the lowdown on the coolest Pipe I've seen for a while now.
As a long-time Flickr user and an avid consumer of RSS feeds (thank you, Bloglines), I've easily had 20-30 Flickr generated RSS feeds in my subscription list. Being able to subscribe to people, groups, searches, and tags makes it easy to track a potentially large pool of photos without a lot of effort.
But there's always been one feature I wanted: the ability to get a feed of my friends' favorite photos. I'm fan of relying on the filtering of others' when it saves me time.
Well I just happened to come across this blog post which mentioned a Pipe called My flickr contacts' faves. Much to my surprise, it's pretty much exactly what I wanted.
Now I can easily see which photos my contacts are marking as favorites.
Check it out!
There's also a related discussion thread here in the Flickr Hacks group.
Oh, and in case it's not obvious, there's another reason I like this Pipe. It's an excellent example of how someone could effectively add a feature to one Yahoo! Product (Flickr) using another (Pipes) without ever having to even ask us for permission.
That's the power of Pipes combined with a good set of RSS feeds or simple APIs.
Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Developer Network
Posted at May 8, 2007 12:46 PM
Comments
Pipes + X (=ebay, craigslist, and any other source) == amazing new features...
Posted by: Ido at May 10, 2007 10:19 PM
I apologize for this off-topic comment, but can anyone give advice on how to pitch Yahoo! with a somewhat unique health care IT related idea?
Posted by: Brian at May 13, 2007 10:47 AM
Hi Jeremy,
Yahoo! Pipes takes out all media-rss related elements, which really makes it unusable sometimes.
I hope, you can pass the message to the team. I have sent feedback many times but never heard from them.
Thanks
-abdul
Posted by: Abdul Qabiz at May 22, 2007 4:04 AM
Will do.
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny at May 24, 2007 1:39 PM
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