A typical example for what users do with Pipes is combining multiple feeds into one, filtering them, or creating feeds for sites that do not provide them. It definitely stands in the tradition of Yahoo! Pipes, hence the name. Pipes is a Ruby/Sinatra application, uses SQLite as database engine and Raphaël for More @Wikipedia
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