Glenn FleishmanWhat do you remember about Yahoo! Pipes? Did you use it? Do you miss it? (Working on a historical article.)
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@glennf I did some early experimentation with Yahoo! Pipes, but never used it for anything in production. At the time many block interconnection interfaces were on vogue, such as Apple’s Quartz Composer, and Yahoo! Pipes rhymed on that topic. Having a graphical way of having access to open REST APIs and join it into actions felt great… and useful!
@glennf In some sense, Yahoo! Pipes showed that open APIs could be used by anyone, from a small person trying to achieve something concrete just once… or a large behemoth like Yahoo! And that probably started making many CEOs and CFOs thinking of value that could be unleashed that they could not tap into… and start shutting those APIs down.
@glennf just found this video [1] from a link from the v2 release of Yahoo! Pipes in the Wayback Machine [2]…
[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=J3tS_DkmbVA
[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120214093835/http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
@glennf and apart from the demise of Yahoo! Pipes, that video also shows how Flickr was the epitome of open APIs… funny thing, it still is… but relevance has dwindled.