I used Yahoo Pipes in two clever, useful ways. One: I would tweet announcements for @asuSoDA, the Software Developers Association I ran at Arizona State U. Bu

I used Yahoo Pipes in two clever, useful ways. One: I would tweet announcements for @asuSoDA, the Software Developers Association I ran at Arizona State U. But these are easy to miss, especially if one doesn’t use Twitter, so I used Pipes to clean up the RSS feed Twitter published, stripping the redundant nature of each tweet starting with "asusoda:", for instance. Two: A professor published homework and grades online, by adding a paragraph starting with date. I used another tool that scrapes HTML into RSS, then piped this into Y! Pipes, where I used regexes to not only give the RSS entries nice titles, but also linked to homework details pages, which had guessable names but the professor did not link to from the announcement pages. So if his note including the phrase /[Hh]omework ([0-9]+)/, I would wrap this in <a> tags as appropriate.