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March 03, 2008
Yahoo! Pipes to regroup all feeds into a single library
Although the use of content syndication greatly facilitates the distribution of content and the assumption of the same, the proliferation of feeds can rethink the problem of information overload that is difficult to digest even through aggregators. The use of these tools facilitates reading syndicated content, but it is also true that it is necessary to select a reasonable number of sources if we are not to suffer from stress informative.
So, faced with this problem of the library Moraine Valley Community College in Illinois (USA), proposed the use of Yahoo! Pipes to regroup all their feeds or "threads" (blogs, podcasts, etc.). Rolled into one, so you can just subscribe to this feed for access to all your information. While this idea is not new helps us to reflect on the problems of content syndication and possible solutions to them, and to remember the possibilities of this service and its use in libraries.
Yahoo! Pipes is a powerful tool that has just turned a year and that allows you to combine different "threads" running with them and get the desired result. While his job may be quite complex building pipes or "pipes" simple can be available to everyone with a few basic instructions.
---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.
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Published: March 03, 2008
Category: Social web
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