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Showing posts with label Yahoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yahoo. Show all posts

Monday, February 19, 2007

Piping With Yahoo

I almost forgot about this, but recently Yahoo launched a new service called Pipes. It's a drag and drop interface which allows you to combine several feeds into one. Remember how much time you'd spent to read every single feed subcriptions. With pipes you can actually combine your favorite feed and categorized it as a theme (News, Tech, Gizmo, etc) you just name it.

If you look inside the pipes you must agree with me that to build a pipes it is not for a faint heart. But once mastered, you can build as many pipes that you want with different purposes. For example, did you ever wish to monitor eBay price that match your budget? Pipes allows you to build query from a base feed url and set rules or filter before streaming it out to the pipe output. Take a look on my simple pipes. It translates a feed into a different language.

I thought saw one or two blogs refering Yahoo pipes as a web 3.0. Looking at pipes capability it's definitely a next generation of web application. In this new era, manipulating a web 2.0 application is the next challenge and Yahoo! pipes succeded.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Sitemap Protocol - Microsoft & Yahoo Joint Support

Google Sitemap is now getting support from Microsoft & Yahoo. They have moved to a new name space called www.sitemaps.org with now version 0.9.

In case you are new to site map, using a site map not only makes it easy for your users to see the entire structure of your website, but it also makes it easier for the search engines to spider your site.When the search engine spiders come to visit, they will follow all of the text links from your main index page. If one of those links is to a site map, then the spiders will go right to the sitemap, and consequently visit every page you have text linked to from that site map.

Let examine a sample of valid sitemap protocol

<blockquote><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2005-01-01</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset></blockquote>


Easy stuff