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You wouldn’t believe where my iphone is…

Im still stunned by the entire unlikelihood of this but I thought I’d share the moment.
So Im driving along, and my iphone chirps at me, I reach out and see that its a meeting reminder. Being lazy I drop the phone in my lap. A few minutes later it slides off to the side of [...]

New YQL build out, includes a new microformat table

Check out the change log for some of the highlights.
One of the new tables is pretty cool, as requested;) :

select * from microformats where url=’http://wait-till-i.com’

Try it in the console, under “data”, or just run it from the public entrypoint directly.
Whats so interesting about the table, apart from the great microformat data it spits out, is [...]

Simple way to get Pipes output onto your web site

Im presenting at the Open Hack Day in London this weekend and as part of it I’ve knocked up a quick example script for executing pipes from Javascript on your web site, and getting the results as an object in a JS function (so you can loop and display the contents for example). You can [...]

New look to Pipes website

Im happy to announce that we’ve massaged (to borrow from Flickr) the Pipes web site and other parts of the system quite a bit in the last few weeks and pushed out a new version tonight. Its part of ongoing work to make the site easier to use and we hope to keep the changes [...]

Google Tech Talk on Pipes

Google recently invited the team to give a tech talk about Pipes.
If you’re interested in some background about the project and some of the issues we were thinking about you can see Pasha and myself talking here

Pipes and drawing lines in IE using “canvas”

I noticed a few blogs mentioning that Pipes uses Google’s open source canvas wrapper library for drawing the editor lines in IE, and wanted to comment on that.
Yup, its true.
Yup, its a nice little open source library that solved a small problem that would have taken a little while to work around. It draws the [...]

Line drawing in pipes

Quite a number of people have asked about how the lines were done in the editor so heres a quick summary.
The answer is actually pretty simple, although getting it “right” is quite hard.
The lines are drawn using the canvas tag, which is supported in firefox and safari (and webkit – which is the fastest renderer [...]

Pipes: Remixing the web

Another sporadic blog update, and again about work…

My colleagues and I have just launched Pipes after many months of hard work, and Im really pleased with what we’ve created. I think its got a lot of possibilities and we’ve only begun to scratch the service.
“Pipes is a service platform for processing well-structured data
such as RSS, [...]

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