Re:Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement
by rokhayakebe on Thursday June 04, 2015 @03:03PM
(#9661358)
no one at Yahoo seemed to understand what Pipes was for
What was Pipes for?
Filtering and triggering without the annoyance of having to write code in some syntax-of-the-month or dredge through poorly written documentation for half-ass APIs.
> legal prevented us from doing any kind of long-term storage of RSS feeds
Wait, is there something legally wrong about storing RSS feed data?
If you are redistributing, hosting or using it commercially you have to have the agreement of the author of the content. RSS just gives you access in another way than HTML, but it does not circumvent copyright.
For another, Yahoo legal prevented us from doing any kind of long-term storage of RSS feeds. That made the service far less useful than it could have been.
Finally, they didn't give it any resources at all. Management was too preoccupied with the failed Brickhouse project (internal startup incubator) and the host of failed ideas that it spawned.