Comments on: Yahoo Pipes: More down than up.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:42:51 +0000

Yahoo Pipes went back up after almost 3 weeks of intermittent problems. There are still problems saving new or modified Pipes, though. That problem exists since at least 2 months….

By: mgingerhack

mgingerhack — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:36:02 +0000

i think the problem is solved now..

By: admin

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:53:15 +0000

@Hank:
Don’t think there is any pro-account formula for Yahoo Pipes unfortunately. The only alternative I found is http://pipes.deri.org/ but looks even more of a hackers tool, and I don’t know how well it performs.

I think I will make my own…

Peter.

By: Hank J

Hank J — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:47:27 +0000

While these sites may be free for us, the end user, google and yahoo take the numbers we provide for them, and they scan the content we enter on their services, and use it as fodder to sell their profitable products, such as adwords.
It is in their interest to keep these sites working well, as the critical mass we provide is the very product they can leverage to advertisers.

That being said, Michael Keizer is correct- if the service is mission critical, buy the pro account, and get on the line with their support if needed.
Do you know of an alternative to Pipes?

By: Michael Keizer

Michael Keizer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:38:37 +0000

My take on this: you get what you pay for. If something is critical to what I do, I don't use a free service. If I don't have a choice (e.g. in the case of Twitter), I ensure that I have fallback plans -- e.g. I am now getting a (paid!)subscription for Backupify. I don't see how we have any 'rights' when it comes to free services. The only right you have is to leave e.g. Yahoo and go to the competitor (who you might need to pay for), which will impact Yahoo's bottom line because they will get fewer clicks. You can try to influence them, but rights, no.