Badges for Yahoo! Pipes (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

March 24, 2008

Badges for Yahoo! Pipes

I've been a big fan of Yahoo! Pipes ever since it launched. Pipes is unique in making the world of feeds accessible and "mashable" in a friendly browser-based development environment.

But it's always felt like there was a missing piece too. Pipes is easy enough for novice (or even non-) programmers to use, but what it ultimately produces is a data feed intended to be consumed by a program.

Pipes Badges change all that. If you can add a one-line script tag to a web page, you can visually display the output of a pipe on you own web site. To learn more about this, I got together with Paul Donnelly for a demo. Here's the video.

You'll notice that these badges do more that render an RSS feed as a list. If the feed contains photo data, you can get a slide show. And if the feed contains geocoded data, you can get a map badge.

In my mind, this is the first of several steps to making pipes output more useful to a larger class of data junkies.

Thanks to Paul for making time to go over the Badges.

Enjoy...

Jeremy Zawodny
Yahoo! Developer Network

Posted at March 24, 2008 5:45 PM

Comments

Very cool. I made a map widget for my blog that combines my geo-tagged Flickr photos and a hack for location-based Twitter posts. I call it my Status Map...

http://joelaz.com/post/29826408

I love that someone like me with zero programming skills can create things like this. Pipes rocks. Congrats on the badges launch!

Posted by: Joe Lazarus at March 25, 2008 11:39 AM

Great news; this really allows me to more easily embed some of the Pipes output in my blog posts or websites, without going through some of the contortions previously necessary (like iframes and such). The Google Pipes gadget is particularly nice (if a bit smug!)

Posted by: Duane at March 27, 2008 7:16 AM

Hi,
I have just created a french yahoo group to join french pipes developers together. English ones are welcome too, of course. Please have a look at : http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/y_pipes/
and join us !

Regards, RG
http://infogere.com

Posted by: René GENEVIEVE at April 1, 2008 3:04 AM