Sucking from the pipe... Yahoo! Pipes, the excellent visual data mashup creator, has an unfortunate blockage problem. Specifically, it can pull in data from numerous sources, but the flow stops at the end of the pipe, waiting to be sucked out and consumed instead of automatically flowing out to its final destination. When you create a Yahoo! [...]

I love the immediacy of Qik for recording short videos and yet I don't want my Qik videos to reside separately from my blog. In my initial attempt, I decided to integrate the two by putting a video player in the sidebar of my WordPress blog, consuming the Qik RSS feed for my videos, and [...]

I love Yahoo! Pipes. It has saved my butt on several occasions when I've needed to transform feeds. However, I think I broke it (for myself, at least) by customizing the URL for my pipes. When you do that, you lose the ability to refer to your pipes using the yahooapis.com domain and thus you cannot [...]