Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes @ Yahoo! Video
Then, I started to build my first ever pipe.. (Excited!! and Scary!!!)
1. I need an Yahoo account in order to sign into Yahoo Pipe
2. Watch the above mentioned video.
3. Decide my Pipe's title: Latest Social Media News
4. Browse some social media sites which contain latest news or feeds in this area.
5. Back to my Yahoo Pipe page. Click "Create a Pipe"
6. Start building.. Drag a "module" I want to use from the "source" (tools on left column). I chose the "Fetch Site Feed" and add the URLs of the social media sites that I want to include. See diagram below.
7. Next, I filtered the feeds with some limitation. Link all the boxes together. The following diagram shows the Filter box and limitation rules that I set.
8. Type my pipe title, hit the "Save" button, then click the "Run my pipe".
9. Here is how it looks like in my Yahoo Pipes home page. It lists news about the latest social media sites.
10. I can add this list to My Yahoo, My Google, or get it as RSS, JSON, results by emails or phone. I can even embed it into Blogger, TypePad, Wordpress or iGoogle.
I chose the Blogger Badge because I want to see how it looks in my blogspot.
11. Done. Please refer to my homepage left column under my Twitter updates, there is a box showing the latest social media news.
Well, this is my first "kindergarten" level of piping or mashup skill.. I will dig more in the future. Very Interesting!!! I feel soooooooooooo satisfied after I managed to do this.. ^_^!! haha!! With this skill, I can make my own homepage with mashups content targeted to my own information needs.
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