Check out my biggest launch till date: CricTwits - an aggregator of Twitter conversations revolving around Cricket matches. This project was inspired from Title Tweets, a similar initiative for a basketball tournament in USA.
It took 2 weeks to build this website after getting an inspiration from Title Tweets. CricTwits collects twitter posts containing references to cricket matches, team names, player names. The match page shows tweets favoring the two teams and also allows you to post to your twitter timeline from within the Website. There is also a live scoreboard on the match page. So, you have one reason less to leave the website.
I timed the launch to coincide with IPL. CricTwits is a great platform for IPL fans to stay close to thier favorite club. Go Tweet!!
I’ve created a Yahoo Pipe to find the list the medals won by a country in the ongoing Olympics 2008. Visit the pipe, enter the country code and click on “Run”. Find the list of Country codes here.
The results are displayed as shown in this picture,
And how to create a feed for the medals won by your country’s Olympians from this Pipe? Here you go!!. This is the format of the feed url,
http://pipes.yahoo.com/yemkay/olympics2008medalfeed?_render=rss&country=XXX
Replace XXX with the country code. Open your feed reader, subscribe to this URL and be the first to know when Olympians from your country win medals. Feed for my country is still empty. Dont miss the hot ones - China and United States.
Read the related entry in Pipe Feeds
I’ve created a website, Pipe Feeds, to publicize my Yahoo Pipes. I will publish the Yahoo pipes created for my personal use on this website. Most of my pipes attempt to simplify the way you use the internet - from surfing to subscription. My objective of creating Pipes is that,
if you like a content from a particular section of a website, let the content come to you next time without you having to visit the website again. Widgetizing and embedding are some other benefits from Yahoo Pipes. This diagram depicts it more clearly.
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To start with, I’ve published pipes for Cricket Quotes (from cricinfo), ThiruKural Widget and History of Tamil Cinema (from DinaThanthi).
The pipes Cartoons from Indian dailies, Cartoons from Tamil dailies and Adade Cartoons feed which were created in the past and later graduated to auto publishing sites are also listed.
The site is hosted on blogger. Each post will represent a pipe and has various links for embedding, gadget creation, feed subscription and Pipes source.
Read more about Yahoo Pipes and Pipe Feeds site. If you like to create any pipes for generating custom feeds, just drop a note.
In continuation to the Adade Cartoons site and feed, I’ve created two similar sites for aggregating cartoons from English and Tamil magazines.
The Toons of India site pulls cartoons from Times of India, Economic Times, Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle and Hindu, while the Tamil cartoons website aggregates cartoons from the popular Tamil magazines of Dinamani, Dinamalar and Dinathanthi.
View Toons of India
View Tamil cartoons
As explained here, these custom aggregators were created using Yahoo pipes, a free tool to generate custom feeds.
தினமணியில் வெளியாகும் அடடே கார்ட்டூன்கள் பற்றி அறிந்திருப்பீர்கள். தினமும் அந்தக் கார்டூன்களை பார்ப்பதற்காக மெனக்கெட்டு தினமணி.com போய் மூன்று நான்கு கிளிக்குகள் செய்து விளம்பரங்களுக்கு மத்தியில் உள்ள கார்ட்டூன்களை ரசிக்கிறீர்களா? இந்த வேலையை எளிதாக்க விரும்புகிறீர்களா? அப்படியென்றால் உங்களுக்கான தளம் http://adade-cartoons.blogspot.com, ஓடை http://feeds.feedburner.com/adade-cartoons.
Yahoo Pipes-ல் இது போன்ற ஓடைகளை எளிதாக உருவாக்கலாம். நான் உருவாகிய இந்த Yahoo Pipe, தினமணி தளத்தில் உள்ள கார்ட்டூன்களை சுரண்டி ஓடையாக மாற்றித் தரும். அந்த ஓடையிலுள்ள கார்ட்டூன்கள் பின்னர் http://adade-cartoons.blogspot.com தளத்தில் பதிவுகளாக வெளிவரும். இதில் கொஞ்சம் manual work-ம் உண்டு. கீழே உள்ள படத்தில் தெளிவாக விளக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.
Adade Cartoons blog - How it works? - இந்த பதிவில் அடடே கார்ட்டூன்கள் தளத்தின் இயக்கத்தைப் பற்றி விபரமாக எழுதியுள்ளேன்.
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