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Folks often ask me how it is I always know about things before they do.  A great deal of it is my voracious reading habit, but I owe a great deal of my scoops to a simple utility I created with Yahoo! Pipes. Pipes is a mashup editor that allows you to take feeds and [...]

Folks often ask me how it is I always know about things before they do.  A great deal of it is my voracious reading habit, but I owe a great deal of my scoops to a simple utility I created with Yahoo! Pipes. Pipes is a mashup editor that allows you to take feeds and pages from a number of different sources, and re-apply the data to other services or feed types. In my case, I created a feed based from a aggregated search query to the Twitter public timeline, Technorati and Google Blog Search - and all without typing a line of code.

Pipes has several major updates today, ostensibly the result of “a hectic 24 hours as part of the recent internal Y! hack day.” The first of the updates is an interface for the iPhone to the Pipes system, allowing you useful things like localized traffic maps, something obviously useful on the go, and the Price Watcher, suggested for use while standing in line at Frys to determine if you’re really getting the best price.

They’ve also updated the process to find other’s pipes.  Once you’ve created and published a pipe, it has always seemed to be a nebulous process to promote it from within the community.  Most searches I’ve performed only return about nine or ten results, but now searchers will be able to browse by category, format and tags, instead of simply searching.

Finally, they’ve also squashed a few bugs of note.  They’ve updated their language support (I’ve noticed Japanese and Arabic results showing up in my Pipes the last day or two, as opposed to strings of blocks), as well as enhanced the Regex module.  Most interestingly, though, you’ll be able to determine the number of times your Pipe has been run (which doesn’t appear to be working properly yet - my pipe is run about every 30 minutes by my reader, but only shows one run).

All in all, Yahoo Pipes is a useful tool for rapid deployment of feed-based data queries, and these are several welcome and useful updates.

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Israel’s fears in regards to Google Earth’s satellite imaging tools have come to fruition. Members of Palestine’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with the Fatah political party, has admitted to using Google Earth for mapping targets for rocket strikes. Khaled Jaabari, the group’s commander, has said that they are using Google Earth [...]

Israel’s fears in regards to Google Earth’s satellite imaging tools have come to fruition. Members of Palestine’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with the Fatah political party, has admitted to using Google Earth for mapping targets for rocket strikes. Khaled Jaabari, the group’s commander, has said that they are using Google Earth images to check details against their own maps in order to find sensitive areas that are vulnerable to strikes.

As Israel already expressed concern about the updated Google Earth images, and Google Earth also faced criticism when al-Qaida used Google Earth for similar purposes, the admittance from the Palestinian militants may spur more aggressive discussions for not only Israel but privacy groups overall.

[via the guardian]

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Stealth Startup Wix To Help Users Build Flash Websites“Israel-based Wix.com is a new entrant that is entering into private beta now. It claims to allow users to create Flash-based websites without any programing skills, and publish those sites anywhere on the web. The output can also be widgetized and published on social networks. We have [...]

Stealth Startup Wix To Help Users Build Flash Websites
“Israel-based Wix.com

is a new entrant that is entering into private beta now. It claims to allow users to create Flash-based websites without any programing skills, and publish those sites anywhere on the web. The output can also be widgetized and published on social networks. We have not been able to test the service directly yet. But a source that did see it called it “awesome.” And if it helps people build flexible, useful Flash applications without any programming skills, someone

here in California just may pick them up sooner or later.”
 
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Philips and citizenM build a modular high-tech hotel“The system, which will first be implemented at the citizenM hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, consists of pre-fabricated rooms which can be instantly brought online by connecting just four cables, which enable an RFID keycard, flat-screen entertainment center, free wireless, and a “MoodPad” lighting controller which controls the [...]

Philips and citizenM build a modular high-tech hotel
“The system, which will first be implemented at the citizenM hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, consists of pre-fabricated rooms which can be instantly brought online by connecting just four cables, which enable an RFID keycard, flat-screen entertainment center, free wireless, and a “MoodPad” lighting controller which controls the lighting, shades and temperature to set the appropriate ambiance. Settings stored on the RFID card can be changed remotely, so guests can login and set their preferences before they arrive, and Philips says all this tech will help hotel owners cut costs by up to 50%, which sounds a little too good to be true”

 
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Concepts: Electric Band-Aids for Fast Relief“HealFast is specifically designed for patients with diabetes in an attempt to address the chronic ulcers and pressure sores that they often experience. Once applied, an electric charge would generate a very weak field that prevents infection in the surrounding tissue.” Gizmodo

Concepts: Electric Band-Aids for Fast Relief
“HealFast is specifically designed for patients with diabetes in an attempt to address the chronic ulcers and pressure sores that they often experience. Once applied, an electric charge would generate a very weak field that prevents infection in the surrounding tissue.”

 
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Hard Drive: HDD USB Dock Plugs Bare SATA Drives Like NES Cartridges“Compatible with Windows and Macs, this $46.79 SATA HDD Stage Rack will allow you to plug any bare 2.5- or 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives into your computer like Nintendo cartridges or, for those of you old enough, 8-tracks. Just take the HD, plug [...]

Hard Drive: HDD USB Dock Plugs Bare SATA Drives Like NES Cartridges
“Compatible with Windows and Macs, this $46.79 SATA HDD Stage Rack will allow you to plug any bare 2.5- or 3.5-inch SATA hard disk drives into your computer like Nintendo cartridges or, for those of you old enough, 8-tracks. Just take the HD, plug it into the base, connect the base to your Mac or PC via USB, and it will appear on your desktop.”

 
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Eye-Fi’s 2GB SD wireless card hits the FCC“The Eye-Fi-2GB provides the same WiFi-enabling capabilities to any SD-ready digital camera, but this one looks to pack 2GB of capacity to handle even more snaps” Engadget

Eye-Fi’s 2GB SD wireless card hits the FCC
“The Eye-Fi-2GB provides the same WiFi-enabling capabilities to any SD-ready digital camera, but this one looks to pack 2GB of capacity to handle even more snaps”

 
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