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2007 - 2015
Yahoo Pipes
“Wire the web together without writing a whole program.”
- Birth year
- 2007
- Shutdown year
- 2015
- Lifespan
- 8 years
- Peak era
- 2007–2015
- Company
- Yahoo
- Category
- Web Utilities
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What Was It?
Yahoo Pipes let users combine and filter feeds through a visual editor. Connected modules turned a collection of web sources into a custom output, making the web feel like something you could rearrange for yourself.
The visual connections made a process visible. Instead of treating feeds as fixed destinations, a user could imagine them as material to combine, filter, and reshape into a useful result. The arrangement of modules explained something about how the output was being assembled.
Pipes represents a hands-on approach to the web in which personal tools could be built from existing sources. Its closure removed the hosted place where those combinations ran, illustrating how a custom workflow can still depend on a central service.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Its editor represented transformations as connected blocks.
- RSS feeds were a central part of its mashup workflow.
The Story
- 2007 Yahoo Pipes let users combine and filter feeds through a visual editor.
- 2007 The public beta introduces a visual way to assemble information from different sources.
- 2015 Yahoo made Pipes read-only and closed the service in 2015.
How It Died
Yahoo made Pipes read-only and closed the service in 2015.
What Replaced It?
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