Lifestream Tinker Toy, Powered By Yahoo! Pipes
So, (almost) everyone is totally crazy for lifestreams these days. In case you managed to get around the whole issue so far: a lifestream is basically a big bucket (i.e. web page) where all the updates and update notifications from your blog, your ADD-induced Twitter posts, your Flickr uploads etc come together in one concise way so it’s easier for others to ignore them. Also, you only have one URL to hand out to hot women in pubs because the stream inadvertedly works as a hub page, too!
Joy.
Anyways, I was talking with Hendrik about the various stream services out there, and I figured it’d be fairly easy to build something server-less using a wee bit of Javascript and Yahoo! Pipes. So I’ve spent around an hour to do just that.
The basic idea is that you make a pipe containing all your feeds, and then access the output using Javascript from your page. Add some styling, and voilá.
It’s a bit rough around the edges, but hey, it’s just a prototype. It’s not life- or game-changing in any way, but I’d like to share anyways.
Update 2007-11-21: It’s mostly broken right now since I am playing around with something. Not to worry.
dude…
how awesome are you?
(all I need now is a couple of links and this would look like a spam comment)
Hehe. Thanks.
I am working on something, by the way. Watch this space. Might take a few days (actually, it will take a few days), but I’m working on something.
C.
uh-oh… :)
I’m working on something, too – but it’s an internal company project, so it won’t make make its way onto the public intarwebs… still it’s requiring me to flex some web building / programming muscles I haven’t used in far too long. Which is the only reason I mention it.
i did something similar, taking bits from Philip Tellis’s Pipe which did some of the same. I’m using curl and simplexml, so if you don’t mind, i’ll be taking a peek at your JS code
- http://yahooza.com/?a=labs&v=social_stream
great job! looks cool!
[…] delle fonti che avete inserito, ripulite di alcuni elementi per renderli più organici. L’autore della pipe fornisce anche una pagina web che sfrutta il lavoro di Yahoo! Pipes per pubblicare senza sforzo […]
[…] delle fonti che avete inserito, ripulite di alcuni elementi per renderli più organici. L’autore della pipe fornisce anche una pagina web che sfrutta il lavoro di Yahoo! Pipes per pubblicare senza sforzo […]
[…] L’autore della pipe fornisce anche una pagina web che sfrutta il lavoro di Yahoo! Pipes per pubblicare senza sforzo questo lifestream. Basta semplicemente copiarla e sostituire l’url della pipe con quello della vostra, oltre a personalizzare la pagina secondo le vostre necessità. […]