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Yahoo Pipes Keyword CSV 2 Minute Demo

This is a quick example of how to use Yahoo Pipes to loop through a series of keywords from a CSV file and run them through various searches. In this example, I am running the list of keywords through Twitter search, but the real power is when you search multiple services.

Shizzow 15 Seconds of Flame: The Blooper Reel

A little fun for you at our expense :)shizzow.com

Google Docs Inputs: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video D...

Google documents can be much easier for many users to update than a CSV file stored on a website. In this 2 minute Yahoo Pipes video demo, you will learn how to use data from a Google Docs spreadsheet as an input into Yahoo Pipes. You can get the blog post that accompanies this video along with my previous 2 minute demos by visiting the Fast Wonder Blog.

Using Location Data: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video ...

Yahoo Pipes can make it easier to work with location data (latitude / longitude) across multiple RSS feeds, even when the original feeds have different ways of specifying the location data. In this demo, I'll show you how to use the Location Extracter module to normalize the data and then filter on lat / long data to get results only within a certain area. You can visit my blog to find the corresponding blog post and other Yahoo Pipes videos.

Shizzow 15 Seconds of Flame

For Ignite Portland's 15 seconds of Flame.

YQL (Yahoo Query Language): 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes...

After learning that Yahoo Pipes introduced a new module called YQL (Yahoo Query Language) last week, I knew that I had to find a way to work it into one of my 2 minute videos. YQL uses an SQL-like syntax for more powerful and flexible inputs into Yahoo Pipes; however, working it into a 2 minute demo was quite challenging, since queries can be complicated. I cheated a little by glossing over the query language and focusing on how to use YQL effectively within Pipes. Honestly, I'm never going to...

Filter By Date: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo

This 2 minute Yahoo Pipes demos shows how to filter by date using the filter module combined with the date builder module to find all of the posts in the past 2 days from our feeds. You can view the previous Yahoo Pipes demos by visiting the Yahoo Pipes and RSS Hacks page on the Fast Wonder Blog.

Why @geekygirldawn <3's the Portland Tech Commun...

My 15 seconds of flame for Ignite Portland

Pipes within Pipes: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video D...

We've talked about many different uses for Yahoo Pipes in previous 2 minute Yahoo Pipes demos, but you can also use most existing Yahoo Pipes within other pipes.In this demo, we'll use a couple of Pipes I've previously created as the input into a new Yahoo Pipe, and we'll introduce the union operator as a way to pull several inputs together.