Too many blogs, discovering Yahoo! Pipes

Most IT professionals nowadays have the problem of maintaining so many blogs. Yes, including me! I think I have at most 5 blogs. I have blogs in multiply, blogspot, wordpress, and devpinoy. Maintaining content and liking to all my blogs was a pain.

When there's pain, there should be some solution out there so I searched for a tool to mashup or aggregate all content from all of my blogs. I saw some tools like bloglines and readers from My Yahoo and Google's ig. But, those were not the tools I was looking for. Those tools just mashup content for personal reading. What I wanted was a tool which will aggregate my RSS feeds and enable me to display it in my new blog. In a way, it solves the problem of migrating all content to the new one.

After some time searching, I found Yahoo! Pipes. Taking the description from the Pipes website, "Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web." Finally, I found a tool for my needs.

The nice thing about Yahoo! Pipes is that enables you to manipulate your content in a Graphical User Interface(GUI). This makes it easy for ordinary users. So, you don't really need to be technical to use pipes. Here's a link to the "Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes video" on how to use Yahoo! Pipes.

Check out the Yahoo! Pipes website for more cool stuff!

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About the author

Melvin Dave P. Vivas is Owner and Senior Consultant in Melvin Dave Consulting and Marketing specializing in IT consulting, business solutions, mobile services and technology products marketing. He is founder and Chairman of the Association of Filipino Java Developers(PinoyJUG), the largest community of Java Developers in the Philippines. He also invented the Lemongreen SMS appliance.