Smoke My Pipe
February 14th, 2007
Yahoo recently introduced a new tool for folks to mash up web properties and make some cool apps – Yahoo Pipes. One of my colleagues and a super smart and super cool guy, Nick Bradbury, recently did some plumbing.
I love Yahoo and the fact that they are pushing the envelope here, but I think the only people that will be able to grok this are developers, and we already have tools for doing this that provide more flexibility and autonomy. But I am not dissing Pipes or Yahoo… this is a great piece of work!
On the one hand Yahoo is wetting the appetite of the geek community w/ Pipes and that is cool. Yahoo is definitely upping the ante here with the notion of a web based IDE … very nice. But Yahoo already has a very strong asset and an asset that makes me believe they will continue to shine regardless of any doubts or jelly stains. Yahoo owns mom and pop.
Literally, Yahoo owns my mom and pop. I recently went home for my sister’s 40th birthday and ever y time my mom or dad got on their computer, their experience was occurring inside the Yahoo space. They check mail, weather, news, sports. My mom loves word games and she used to buy the little soft cover jobbies. Now she uses Yahoo. My dad was always looking at the Yahoo finance stuff. Oh, and they both use the search INSIDE Yahoo.
Yahoo, would you like some milk with that peanut butter sandwich? Peanut butter is my favorite food… it is loaded with protein and provides plenty of fuel to get through the day 
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1. Nick Bradbury | February 15th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Thanks for the ego boost, Kevin
I think you’re right that creating Pipes is strictly for geeks, but end users of Pipes creations don’t have to be geeks. IMO, Pipes is a development tool, not a consumer product. You can use it to create something that’s useful to your mom and pop.
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