MySpace slipped over the 100 million users mark earlier today (August 9th). Those who watched the dial claim that the 100,000,000 level was reached at 07:41 EST - as you can see, I missed it by a few thousand. Of course, that figure has been bumped up by millions of fake and inactive accounts, but it’s still a remarkable achievement.
Ever since I first started playing with RSS feeds, I’ve always dreamt that one day someone would come up with an online tool that makes it easy to aggregate multiple feeds. For a brief half-hour today, I thought maybe Yahoo! Pipes, which launched yesterday, would prove to be the answer to my prayers. But no. Instead, it illustrates just how elusive remains the dream of easy data mashups.
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.
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