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18 February 2007

Mashup: MetaChat through Flickr... You may have to go to yahoo first for this link to work. This is still in beta and far from what I would call perfect, but it's still fun.

post by: mischief at: 19:30 | 11 comments

hm, that's pretty cool. I originally thought pipes was just some aggregator but i guess it's there's more to it than that.

posted by court siem 18 February | 20:46

Ok I... don't get it. I'm probably doing something wrong. What am I supposed to be looking a t?

posted by CitrusFreak12 18 February | 21:14

This looks cool. I just wish I understood what the Content Analysis thingy does....

posted by mmahaffie 18 February | 21:23

I'm confusled - what does this do?

posted by dg 18 February | 22:05

"What does it do?"

The module I "designed" takes the RSS feed from MeChat, extracts a keyword or phrase from each entry, and then searches Flickr for each keyword.

posted by mischief 18 February | 22:34

Can you control how it picks a key word? That's what I don't get....

posted by mmahaffie 18 February | 22:44

I'm so glad other people don't get it. My thoughts looking at it ran like this:

whaaa? what is this the pipes? what is happening now? clones? where did it choose these pictures from?

posted by SassHat 18 February | 23:22

I just discovered this thing today, so I am just as new to it as anyone else. Basically, Yahoo is trying to build a mashup generator for dummies, but I do not get a warm feeling that the developers have much experience developing scripting languages. Hell, you can't even collate two input streams.

posted by mischief 19 February | 01:16

Anyway, my first module (above) is a series of pictures pulled from Flickr based on keywords that Pipes pulled from the RSS feed.

posted by mischief 19 February | 01:18

Damn I can't get this thing to run on any of 4 machines. Maybe something in my firewall.

posted by arse_hat 19 February | 01:24

I don't get it either but there were some great photos!

posted by deborah 19 February | 14:16

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