Yahoo Pipes is a smart little tool that complements my website very well. With Yahoo pipes the webmaster of another website (in this case me with freeradicals.ning.com) can stream information from a number of different sources and publish them as a news feed on their own site.
Firstly what you need to do is sign up with Yahoo in order to be able to access this feature. Once your in you have a choice of using a "here's one i made earlier" pipe or going straight ahead with building your very own.
As free radicals is a web site dealing with important issues from around the world for people to chat about, I felt it only best to include a news feed of world events to give people something to talk about.
So firstly I chose which sites I wished to include into my news feed. I wanted to have a variety of topics so I chose the United Nations website, the bbc news site, the word wild life foundation site and the friends of the earth website. Having put all their URL locations into a feeder I then added a filter to stop people trying to search for irrelevant items within the news feed. Now all I needed to do was connect the feeder to the filter and the filter to the output (that’s the pipes part) and click publish pipe.
My pipe is now ready to use having obtained a URL from Yahoo I then pasted this into my RSS feed on my free radicals site and now it has up to date news from a variety of sources informing us about what’s going on in the world.
Here is the structure of the pipe from the yahoo editor:
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