It may be time to fire up that long-forgotten Yahoo! account after all.
Yahoo’s new service, Pipes, is turning heads, and with good reason.
Want a two-bedroom apartment near a Whole Foods? Need a studio across from a pub? Look no further. One of Yahoo’s featured “pipes”, Apartment Near Something, will find it for you. This particular pipe searches craigslist, identifies the location of apartments that match your search, and then examines which apartments are near whatever else you searched for. But that’s not all you can do with a pipe.
Yahoo Pipes enables users to control, manipulate, and reuse Internet content by creating customized searches. While it’s usefulness to technophobes and Internet newbies is questionable, it’s ingenuity is not. If you’ve ever had that feeling that it’s all been done before, but it all could have been done better, now may be your time to shine.
