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I’ve been doinking around with pipes… I have like five Yahoo! user-ids and don’t know any of the passwords, in fact I didn’t know the ids until I went through the Yahoo! authentication challenge that always leaves you logged on and far from where you wanted to go. But I got there, and wasn’t entirely (though I was mostly) baffled. Maybe I can ask Shelley to explain it to me…

Tim O’Reilly says,

Yahoo! Pipes is a first step towards changing all that, creating a programmable web for everyone. Using the Pipes editor, you can fetch any data source via its… XML feed, extract the data you want, combine it with data from another source, apply various built-in filters (sort, unique (with the “ue” this time:-), count, truncate, union, join, as well as user-defined filters), and apply simple programming tools like for loops. In short, it’s a good start on the Unix shell for mashups.

Caterina Fake provides a lot of links to the devlopers and the current discussion. For me, it still centers on figuring out what the damn Yahoo! user-id actually is today. And, of course FlickR is forcing me to address that issue soon.