God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a cohesive product.
They made so much money, until they didn’t. It’s interesting how these large organizations are able to sort of be patrons of certain activities. Other companies may have spent the surplus on hookers and coke, yahoo let engineers build stuff.
It was interesting, but does it align with Yahoo's interest?
Kind of like Google buying of freebase. They made a few interesting projects on top of it and then killed those...
I don't think any of it was so groundbreaking it would be useful today but there were a number of wheels that would end up being reinvented between then and now.