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Life Streams with Yahoo Pipes (screencast)

Yahoo Pipes is "an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator". The service easily allows you and me to create a feed of feeds, sometimes known as 'life streams', though I like to call them: soup.

Here's a screencast showing how easy it is to create a stream of your online activity, and the JavaScript required to add the feed to your blog with a bit of sexy icon magic too boot.

Download the QuickTime screencast, 55Mb, a little over 10 minutes

If you can't view the screencast, try DivX Web Player for Windows or the Mac.

You can also see a working demo of the soup in action (just view the source to see the JavaScript used).

The Yahoo pipes are a pretty impressive tool, but the once thing I find lacking is the ability to modify the output, in particular, I would really like to know the source of the feed when aggregating feeds. That said, if anyone know how - do let me know.

As always, let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

One Response to “Life Streams with Yahoo Pipes (screencast)”

  1. Something that I've noticed: the pipes feed looks like it's being served from a distributed architecture (which obviously makes sense) - but they're not always in sync. For instance, sometimes I view my "Life Soup" with very few tweets, and when I keep refreshing, eventually I see the complete list of tweets via twitter (mixed in with the rest of my links).

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