Comments on: Usability and Robustness Issues of Yahoo Pipes http://dontai.com/wp/2009/02/13/usability-robustness-issues-yahoo-pipes/ Have Lemons, Make Lemonade Sun, 06 May 2012 18:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: David Ing http://dontai.com/wp/2009/02/13/usability-robustness-issues-yahoo-pipes/comment-page-1/#comment-45 David Ing Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:44:50 +0000 http://dontai.com/wp/?p=463#comment-45 I'm not surprised that you're having problems with RSS. Way back when I hadn't been blogging for long -- <a>Blogspot problems, way back in March 2006!</a> -- I discovered that RSS isn't the best specified protocol. From listening to podcasts, my understanding is that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)" rel="nofollow">Atom</a> is a well-designed standard, much better than RSS 2.0 . That being said, an Atom feed isn't always available and my experience is that there's sometimes issues with getting an Atom feed recognized by offline feed readers. I don't know Yahoo Pipes well, but see that Yahoo says <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/docs?doc=overview" rel="nofollow">Pipes offers output in RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), JSON and Atom formats for maximum flexibility</a>. I wasn't sure which you chose to aggregate into Google -- or if it makes a difference -- which is exactly the sort of detail that I've been ducking by not engaging with the mashup tools. I’m not surprised that you’re having problems with RSS. Way back when I hadn’t been blogging for long — Blogspot problems, way back in March 2006! — I discovered that RSS isn’t the best specified protocol.

From listening to podcasts, my understanding is that Atom is a well-designed standard, much better than RSS 2.0 . That being said, an Atom feed isn’t always available and my experience is that there’s sometimes issues with getting an Atom feed recognized by offline feed readers.

I don’t know Yahoo Pipes well, but see that Yahoo says Pipes offers output in RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF), JSON and Atom formats for maximum flexibility. I wasn’t sure which you chose to aggregate into Google — or if it makes a difference — which is exactly the sort of detail that I’ve been ducking by not engaging with the mashup tools.

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