Digg.com has blocked the Yahoo Pipes service from accessing their RSS feeds. Yahoo Pipes is a tool that came out of the Brickhouse internal incubator unit which lets users visually aggregate RSS feeds into new and better mashed services (example : Aggregated News Alerts takes the best news search engines and sets up one easy interface.)
From the Yahoo Pipes Message Boards:
Looks like we’re being blocked by user agent string. Try:
curl -IA “Yahoo Pipes 1.0″ http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml
and you get an empty response. You’ll have to take it up with Digg.
We’re working on getting error reporting working, so you’ll know when/why a feed failed to load.
Why would Digg do such a thing? Are they trying to keep users from creating Digg driven mashups?
Or is this a direct call to keep the Yahoo Brickhouse team out of Digg?
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Michael Martinez on Apr 5, 2007 at 10:56 am
They need to fix Yahoo! Pipes anyway. The interface is way too clumsy. Someone who likes working with the UNIX command line may enjoy the Pipes environment, but I’m more interested in efficiency.
Sushubh on Apr 6, 2007 at 5:28 am
its sad that a site which is totally dependent on user submitted content is stopping users from using that content for innovative purposes.
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