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Many see tools like http://Zapier.com http://Zapier.com or http://elastic.io http://elastic.io (disclaimer - I'm a founder) as alternative to Pipes and IFFT.

• onli 11y ago
  But all of them seem to miss the focus on RSS, or even just the ability to manipulate feeds.
  • mxfh 11y ago
    Zapier is the only reliable tool I found so far that can still import RSS to facebook pages, it tried it with pipes and it had issues with non-standard fields.
  • justincormack 11y ago
    The whole internet misses the previous focus on RSS...
    • tracker1 11y ago
      It's amazing how much a shift of management focus can change things... Google embraces RSS, develops the premiere online RSS reader, so good that even stand alone readers are largely abandoned... then google nukes RSS support from Chrome, and shutters Reader. And the world is worse off for it. It definitely inspires a "never forget" kind of mindset, such that I don't trust relying on a SaaS that I don't have a personal exit strategy for.
      • awad 11y ago
        Twitter took RSS as a concept and humanized it
        • pestaa 11y ago
          RSS is an open format, Twitter is a walled garden.
        • tommorris 11y ago
          If Twitter is making it more human, I'd rather be ruled by the robot army...
  • thejosh 11y ago
    IFTTT works well for feeds, also had good success with Huginn in the past for feeds.