Yahoo Pipes
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I hope we see a resurgence of this ideal, the recent expanse and interest in Mastodon, the Fediverse, and ActivityPub give me hope.
Matt Mullenweg has committed to adding ActivityPub to Tumblr [0], if others in the established web ecosystem also make such moves maybe this will happen!
Right now Mastodon seems to be the biggest player, but curious what the second/third biggest would be? Pleroma? Having Tumblr add compatibility seems like it could be huge.
But I'm also not developing with NodeJS so wouldn't work for me anyway.
If you're working with go, I created some libraries that are overlayed over the specification pretty closely. You can find them at github.com/go-ap
Between 2008 through about 2016, it was tough to state which was the most widely used (oh, you'll get opinions, just not sure if stuff was tightly tracked)...But after 2016 - when mastodon came onto the fediverse scene - it certainly has been the most popular software to use. As far as which is second...well that depends on whether you count number of nodes on the Fedi, or numbers of users who use a particular software stack. If matrix federated network is excluded from any list, then second might be peertube nodes (https://the-federation.info/#projects). But if counting by number of users, then second might be diaspora (https://fediverse.observer/stats). Of course, the Fedi being what it is, numbers - while likely good - are only approximations...these data only tell a tip of the iceberg. I mean, the fediverse has been around - and active - since around 2008, so you can only imagine there is some small percentage of Fedi instance admins who prefer not to be counted. So, stat sites like i cited will give you an idea, but not exact numbers. ;-)
For example, you want to make an Android app that presents a home screen widget to show the current lottery jackpot or winning numbers. You could build a Yahoo Pipes thing to scrape and parse that, and format it into an RSS feed. The best part is anti-scraping measures allowed it because they thought it was a Yahoo crawler.
The best example I've seen is https://www.bardeen.ai/ : a local-first in-browser solid collection of automations commands and integrations workflows.
The future, though, will more likely look like this https://www.adept.ai/act
But you indeed took a similar dataflow approach, which could be considered "unique" in BI/Analytics.
Good Luck!
From that point onwards, no longer was the OpenWeb the promise; but that of a walled garden.
While I mourn what might have been, I accept the reality of my new corpo future.
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- node-RED
- n8n.ioI actually used Yahoo Pipes at a job back in 2008, the concept of data mashups was really interesting and we tried applying it to mesh our GIS data with other sources to mashup and enrich the results from our databases.
I don't remember much from that project but do remember having fun with Yahoo Pipes interface, I had completely forgotten about it until this popped up.
Still, at least Yahoo has a great exclamation mark in the logo now.
"Yahoo Pipes! $7.99 a month with a generous free tier!"
"Mashup Editor included with every Google Cloud subscription above $5/month."
You never want a product to sound like an add-on: Add-ons are low-value and generally used to rent seek off of people who are already locked in. Naming something in a way that it feels like its own standalone product will inspire consumer confidence.
Generic word + descriptor is an easy way to sound like an add-on.
"Video Editor" could be for anything, but is certainly not an independent product.
"Pachi Video Editor" sounds a bit more like its own thing.
"Pachi Cutting Room" is closer to the mark, despite being two words and a company name.
I find them quite limited but I understand the need and also that not everyone can parse a structured response. It's nice that they have free versions though.
Although more complicated to use but also free, I get a lot more functionality from PythonAnywhere, Cloudflare Workers or Oracle Cloud free tier.
Yahoo at the time was clearly underestimated from a developer point of view. Everyone just saw them losing ground to Google in web search, but they had a really strong development team at the time. Lots of great stuff was open sourced, even though they did not win the same status as Google
- YUI was a really good frontend framework based on components and events. It was so easy to create complex interfaces compared to others at the time.
- Hadoop open sourced big data management
- Vespa was a really good search engine in terms of performance and functionality. It seems to still be alive at http://vespa.ai
- They provided several useful APIs without the restrictions that Google and others often placed on their products.
They made some bad strategic decisions and other business decisions, but they had a lot of exciting technology that was often overlooked.
// YUI was underrated.
In some cases, like mobile, Yahoo was both too early and too late.
There was a good amount of time where Yahoo would launch something, shut it down, then Google would launch the same thing to much success. Of course, now Google is in the habit of shutting things down, another thing Yahoo did first ;)
I used to think there'd be a lot of value in going through Yahoo PR launches from N years ago and if Yahoo had shut it down, consider if it makes sense as an independent business. Although it can be hard to tell why they shut things down, so it might not be obvious which things were the product worked but the market wasn't there and which things had non-obvious issues that made the product unworkable in practice.
I use Huginn to scrape the gas price and send it to my Telegram.
https://newsboat.org/releases/2.10.1/docs/newsboat.html#_fil...
It was so good.