Marjolein Hoekstra brings us OnePipe, an extremely clever browser bookmarklet that let’s you filter any feed by keywords on the fly.
It works as follows:
First “install” the OnePipe bookmarklet by dragging it to your Browser’s bookmark bar. Once you’re on a site which contains an RSS feed, simply click it. A dialog pops up asking you to specify the topics to base the filter on. As far as I’ve seen it in my early tests what you enter here seems to be case-sensitive and only grab stuff based on article excerpts…Expect this to be enhanced over the course of the next releases.
OnePipe leverages Yahoo! Pipes and instantly generates a custom feed link for a site. You can either click it, which opens the filtered feed in Grazr or add the link to your news reader of choice. If you’re sort of a news junky like me, this is a cool little tool that makes life easier.
Pretty clever!
I’d like to conclude with a statement of OpenPipe’s creator, Marjolein:
“For me the exciting part about OnePipe is not so much the bookmarklet itself, but the generic feed filtering mechanism that I built for it using Yahoo! Pipes. Feed manipulation is an essential part of newsmastering, the techniques used to build feeds matching a particular topic, person or event. As far as I know OnePipe is the first solution to offer on-the-fly feed filtering based on URL parameterization. With other feed filtering services the source feed and sometimes the search query get obfuscated, hindering direct finetuning of the settings.”
To follow along exhaustive technical details and OnePipe’s “roadmap”, make sure to visit Marjolein’s blog.
I don’t know what I am missing, but the URL’s saying OnePipe is a 2007 blogpost :S
http://cleverclogs.org/2007/03/onepipe-the-sin.html
URL says it’s a March 2007 post and when I visited her website it is completely up-to-date with 2009, so there is no error on the date dirs.
Bram, you are so… right. :-) We’ve been hinted to OnePipe just today and I did not have it on my radar anytime before. In a possibly slightly too enthusiastic move to get our audience updated, we decided to publish.
The funny thing is, that OnePipe as a concept and the accompanying blog post read pretty 2009, don’t they?
At least we now know, that mashed up bookmarklets are not at all anything too Web 2.0-ish / Web 2010-ish.
Thanks for pointing this out. We hope you might find OnePipe helpful anyway. ;-)
Check btw also Google, Marjolein created OnePipe in 2007…
http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2007/03/13/cool_tools_onepipe.html
http://www.zbdigitaal.nl/2007/03/rss-feeds-filteren-op-trefwoord-met-de.html
Oh well, it looked modern enough to me too. :-)
Ralf, no big deal :)
You got a point that is indeed a nice app, so in that way it was a usefull post!
Bram, which URL are you referring to?