<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">These posts have been added to our blog. To comment on either of these posts, please visit <A href="http://webpub.mit.edu">http://webpub.mit.edu</A>/</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Lisa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://webpub.mit.edu/?p=21"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22.4px;"><B>Yahoo! Pipes….</B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.2px;">February 13th, 2007</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"></SPAN><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Yahoo! Pipes</FONT></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> is a service that lets you combine different web feeds to create your own personal aggregate. You pipe data in, then mash it up…the result is a single rss feed that you created with a few clicks - no programming knowledge required.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> From their </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/docs/overview"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">overview page:</FONT></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> Fpr example, </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/uGJSZWC42xGQdxGFJZhxuA/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">YouTunes</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> is a pipe which links the top 10 songs from iTunes with videos from YouTube. Created by Nick Bradbury, check out his site for a </FONT><A href="http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2007/02/youtunes_an_exa.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">step by step breakdown</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> on how he did it.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">Posted in </FONT><A href="https://webpub.mit.edu/?cat=6"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">web</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">, </FONT><A href="https://webpub.mit.edu/?cat=8"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">rss</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana"> | </FONT><A href="https://webpub.mit.edu/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=21"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#666666">Edit</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana"> | </FONT><A href="https://webpub.mit.edu/?p=21#respond"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">No Comments »</FONT></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://webpub.mit.edu/?p=20"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 22.4px;"><B>New Web Developer Toolbar</B></SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.2px;">February 13th, 2007</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> Many of you know and love the web development toolbar, a handy tool for web producers to make sure their code is up to par with MIT’s </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><A href="http://web.mit.edu/ist/web/reference/guidelines/index.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">Web Publishing Guidelines</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">. There is a new release available (v1.1.3) on the chrispederik.com website (</FONT><A href="http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#B7585A">http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">.)</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for </FONT><A href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">Firefox</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">, </FONT><A href="http://www.flock.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">Flock</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">, </FONT><A href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">Mozilla</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana"> and </FONT><A href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#026798">Seamonkey</FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Verdana">, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> I’ve found this tool to be invaluable when checking sites for code and accessibility compliance. I highly recommend using it to check if your own site needs any tweaking.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`</DIV><DIV>Lisa Mayer :: Consultant</DIV><DIV>DCAD :: Database Development Services</DIV><DIV>MIT :: Information Services & Technology</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:lmayer@mit.edu">lmayer@mit.edu</A> :: 617-452-4225 </DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>