My first Yahoo Pipe!!

Hooray!! Have a try on constructing my own pipes using Yahoo Pipes, and success!!!! Yahoo Pipes is an easy tool to do some mashups on content around the web, especially for person like me who do not have any knowledge and training in API. It took me half a day to figure it up. I watched the "How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes" video from Yahoo Pipes homepage.

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.

YouTube videos that I dearly loved!!!

Ok!! This will be a totally new adventure for me. I haven't attached any video clip ever in my life becausce I have no time to watch video online.

But, I know the effectiveness and powerfulness of multimedia tools nowadays in delivering short and visualised message to internet generation. Audio and video clips are often used in teaching, including both face to face and distance courses. Libraries have widely used them to introduce their promotion events, special activities, and online tutorial resources provided to patrons.

I'm going to try to embed two video clips from YouTube that I like the most. Both of them are related to my career. hehe!! I am learning to become a music librarian.



Woohoo!! Successful!!! The funniest classical music video, and they are so talented!!
Have a look!!

Here come the second one, I love this one, it is very informative and you will understand web 2.0 and social media more after watching this videoclip from YouTube.



I am going to embed another clip here from SlideShare. When I first saw this, I was "WOW"ed by the creativity of 21st century CV. SlideShare is an online community that users can share their presentation slides. In this SlideShare, the creator:Chris Ferdinandi created his CV using visual slides. Lets have a look here.

Social Media Resume

View more presentations from Chris Ferdinandi.

I have learned from the help section of SlideShare that embedded code only shows up if authors have agreed/chosen to share their content on SlideShare(for example) publicly.

I have a great fun time with video embedding today.. ^_^