I don't think anyone who would care ignores Hadoop. It and Yahoo's involvement with it are very well known and credited. WOEID seems pretty niche. I don't wo

I don't think anyone who would care ignores Hadoop. It and Yahoo's involvement with it are very well known and credited. WOEID seems pretty niche. I don't work with geo much, so I don't understand right away why I would want to use a WOEID over a simple lat/long. Who else uses WOEIDs, for instance? Pipes would be approximately a billion times more interesting if it didn't have the commercial use restrictions and had a version I could get some kind of SLA for. If Yahoo is so proud of Pipes, why won't you let people build businesses on it? And why did you only post 2 blog updates about it in 2010?