Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
How to Build Your Own Lifestream with Yahoo Pipes and NO Server Side Logic
This article was originally posted on 23 November 2007 on Cristiano’s own blog. This article is technical but not necessarily complete on the details, keep that in mind. Further more, this article served as the basis for Cristiano’s BarcampLondon3 talk.
So, as you might have noticed I build my own little copy of a Lifestream, much like Jeremy Keith (Adactio) did on his website. Although it is fun to build a lifestream, it isn’t the simplest thing to do, so I took a different approach to use mine and build one using Yahoo Pipes.
The cool thing of using Yahoo Pipes is that my Lifestream is all Javascript+HTML and no server side logic (a.k.a. PHP). I gave a little talk during BarcampBerlin2 explaining what I did, but in the next few paragraphs I will hopefully explain with a bit more detail how it was exactly done, and also focus on some quirks of Yahoo Pipes that I had to work around.
