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First: Create a Pipe
and it doesn't get too much coverage by most blogs or websites. But the service it
provides is pretty awesome—it can stitch together RSS feeds and other data, and
provide them in an easy-to-use format of your choosing.
Figure 12-9.
The Yahoo! Pipes homepage
While other sites allow you to connect things together (Dapper, another Yahoo! property
mind), Pipes provides the more customizable “output,” so we will use it for this example.
To get started, click on “Create a pipe” to load the Pipes editor, shown in Figure 12-10.
The Pipes editor allows you to organize a series of modules (on the left side) into a
logical structure of rules. Each pipe starts with one or more inputs, then uses modules to
operate on them (i.e., to change data, or consolidate it), and then outputs the results in a
variety of forms.