Yahoo! Pipes appeared in 2007 as the premier Web 2.0 mash-up tool. Tim O'Rielly was excited about the new tool saying "a milestone in the history of the internet."
The concept is interesting and the usage is fairly easy to configure, but participation and usage appears limited. The tool may have corporate use for enterprise integration, but customization would be required to access specific systems. The simplicity of the Pipes interface is intriguing though - the idea that one can create a "view" of data from disparate systems quickly with SQL, RSS feeds, and other widgets has a place at the systems architecture and integration toolkit.
Not sure Pipes is the silver bullet, but I really like the concept. You can try out the interface at the Yahoo! Pipes homepage; there is a video tutorial that demonstrates the UI and there are pre-built examples for each widget you can use as a reference.
Enjoy!
The Yahoo! Pipes design user interface configured to search enterprise architecture.
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