Pipe Down

I could have written a blog entry about why Yahoo Pipes UI is incredibly great or why this service is definitely the first public wide-audience service that tries to look at the web as a database. However, even if Yahoo Pipes UI is great, it is will prove difficult to use for anything serious (as are all the graphical programming languages) and the article on the web as a database has already been written (although I don't agree with every word).
So I will restrict myself to a few short comments:

1. Sure the UI is great, but wouldn't a script language be more appropriate and possibly richer?
2. Why is there so much buzz around this and far less around Amazon's incredible web services?
3. Meta-services like Yahoo pipes have little chance to succeed: there exist very little successful meta-services in the electronic world (is there a single very successful meta-search engine?) as in the physical world. As human beings, we usually prefer to handle our workflows ourselves, or, our workflows are so personal that they are difficult to generalize and create a service from.
4. Meta-services make most sense in the enterprise market but then you need the full power of workflow engines. This makes sense and This is serious.

So Pipes is geeky cool (in particular if you majored in databases) but is it useful?

I found this funny although completely unrelated.