Update (3-7-08): of course the iPhone SDK is now out.
Oh Boy, I can’t wait to see some more details on the API for iPhone. Nothing yet on ADC, but I made a Pipe which is going to alert me by email and IM when they add an article with iPhone. Now I just have to prevent myself from buying the first version.
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Created by one of our users, this Pipe creates a feed of your Flickr Contacts’ favorite photos. (Here, I’m viewing the output in Google Reader)
He’s posted it here in the Flickr Hacks Group. This is an excellent Pipe to look at for advanced users combining Split, For Each, Regex and Sub Pipes to create the end result. He also makes great use of the Prompt fields in the user inputs of the Sub Pipes to create a readable interface in the primary Pipe.
We are looking for some good students to work on Pipes for the summer. Semantic web, Ajax, Canvas tag, Data Mashups, Visual Programming: You already know if this is the thing for you. Yahoo is a really fun place to work and Silicon Valley is a terrific place to spend the summer. My first experience with California came when I worked as an intern at Sony and I decided this was where I wanted to live. Get in touch with me if you are interested. ( mr dot donut at yahoo.com )
I’m off to SXSW tomorrow. Hope to see you there. If you are interested in working on Pipes, drop me a line or find me at the conference.
I saw that crschmidt.net was having a little bit of trouble with the Pipes Location Extractor and I realized that our documentation is too short.
Location Extractor normalizes the location information in feeds that have already been geo-coded in some form. For example, if you are using any of the various forms of geo-coding a feed with tags it should work.
Supported formats are GML, W3C Basic GeoRSS, simple GeoRSS, Yahoo! Local’s API format, KML’s “LookAt” tag, and some variations on nearly all of those. Additionally, there is some support for extracting geo data from links to Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps, and Mapquest.
Once this data is extracted, you can access the Latitude and Longitude via the y:location element. When the data is rendered back out as RSS, we use abbreviated W3C Basic Geo which is just geo:lat and geo:long tags. (Note: this format is supported by the Yahoo! Ajax Maps API)
The feature of geocoding addresses in unstructured text is not yet available, but will be coming shortly via a new module.
Hope that helps!