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God, Yahoo Pipes is a blast from the past. Yahoo did so many things that were new and interesting, but never seemed to be able to bring them altogether into a c

• prepend 6y ago
  Sometimes I think of them as Xerox Parc as they obviously had some smart people sort of tooting around on neat stuff, not worrying about money. They made so much money, until they didn’t. It’s interesting how these large organizations are able to sort of be patrons of certain activities. Other companies may have spent the surplus on hookers and coke, yahoo let engineers build stuff.
• jrumbut 6y ago
  I remember I discovered a page of just amazing project after amazing they released with most recently abandoned and the rest following shortly thereafter. I don't think any of it was so groundbreaking it would be useful today but there were a number of wheels that would end up being reinvented between then and now.
• amitport 6y ago
  Some parts of it were due to an Israeli startup they bought, called Dapper. Seems to me like they bought it just to take some patents and kill it. It was interesting, but does it align with Yahoo's interest? Kind of like Google buying of freebase. They made a few interesting projects on top of it and then killed those...