I’ve been beta testing Iterasi’s PositivePress for a while and was excited to finally see it released to the public! It’s a great way to track and archive blog posts and articles from across the web while creating reports with links to certain

Keyword CSV Files and Searching: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo

May 1st, 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a 2 minute Yahoo Pipes video, but I had an opportunity to do a guest post on the Yahoo Developer Network blog (yay!), and I thought that a 2 minute screencast would be the best way to demonstrate my pipe.Thi

Accepting Google Docs Input: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo

Feb 23rd, 2009

This video shows how to use data from Google Docs as an input into Yahoo Pipes. In a previous video, I showed how to use a list of items in a CSV file. If you haven’t already watched the CSV input demo, you should start with it, since this pipe

Using Location Data: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo

Feb 9th, 2009

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 Ex

YQL (Yahoo Query Language): 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo

Feb 2nd, 2009

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 i

Filter By Date: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo

Jan 26th, 2009

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. If you haven’t already watched the 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Int

Pipes within Pipes: A 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo

Jan 19th, 2009

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 int

Using PostRank: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Demo

Jan 12th, 2009

Yahoo Pipes can also be used with other services, like PostRank, for example. PostRank, originally called AideRSS, is a service that rates the posts on any blog by popularity using comments, links, bookmarks, tweets, and other measurements to g

Modifying RSS Feeds: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo

Jan 5th, 2009

While many people use Yahoo Pipes to filter RSS feeds, Pipes can also be used to modify RSS feeds to work better for your purposes. In this example, we will add the author name to the beginning of the title to make it easier to see the author w

CSV File Inputs: 2 Minute Yahoo Pipes Video Demo

Dec 29th, 2008

This video shows how to get input from a list of items in a CSV file, and it introduces the loop module. A CSV file is a great choice when you want to fetch a bunch of feeds and change them frequently without having to update your pipe. If you

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