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Yahoo Pipes' servers have recovered so I just had a quick play and created my first pipe. The feeling I came away with was that the whole environment is a bit constrained - I found myself constantly wanting to do things that the environment wouldn't allow - like creating a new element and populating it with data from an existing feed. I'd really like to see an XSLT operator that would allow you do muck about with the feed a bit more.
The editor is something else - I think Yahoo have really set the bar for browser based UIs - the whole concept of connecting sources and input fields to operators just seems natural though the iterators did seem a little odd at first glance.
I'm guessing that the current palette of operators is just a start and that new operators will be introduced allowing for some pretty interesting applications - for now I think what we'll see is a couple of hundred iterations on the same "get a feed and run it through Flickr" (ie. like mine). Of course - I'd be happy to see human ingenuity prove me wrong.
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