Glenn FleishmanWhat do you remember about Yahoo! Pipes? Did you use it? Do you miss it? (Working on a historical article.)
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@glennf I don't remember what I used it for, but yes, I did, and loved it. 😅 Probably hooking up RSS feeds to Twitter or something? The kind of things I likely use IFTTT for now? IDK 🤣
@uliwitness Yes, it was basically a web-database engine—RSS was one thing, but you could do a lot of free manipulation, like “parse this thing and find stuff like it on a map and then show me the results as a feed." ("Find me apartments on Cragislist that cost below $X within a mile of a park.”) IFTTT has some stuff in common, but Pipes was open ended.
@glennf Oh it might have been what I used to have certain web searches in NetNewsWire then. Searched for tech stuff, TV shows and actors I liked, to be on top of what they were doing. Still haven't found a replacement for that. I think at one point there was also Google or Yahoo Alerts or something, which was more limited?