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Smoking Yahoo!'s pipes - Page 2

How could a tool designed to help you manipulate all kinds of information actually limit your control?
04.03.07 - 11:07 pm | Annalee Newitz |
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That's the beautiful part of Pipes. Still, the more data we deposit in the hive-mind of the Web, the less power we have over it. *

Annalee Newitz is a surly media nerd who still hears the voice of her UNIX teacher in her head saying, "Now pipe it to MORE."

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