Brickhouse is Yahoo’s internal startup. Internal, you ask? Yes, because someone cleverly understood that having an internal ’startup’ is much less expensive than buying an external one. I guess this was made possible by Caterina Fake based on what I read.
Yahoo Pipes is a type of Visual Rapid Wed Development Tool for creating mashups. Pipes is based on the UNIX piping system from which little programs can be chained to make some bigger processing possible.
In Yahoo Pipes, you work in a visual environment to build and test your mashup by connecting different modules together. I wonder if the interface is built with OpenLaszlo.
Once your pipe is working, you can even subscribe to its output feed by RSS.
With pipes, you can do more with less code. In short, Brilliant.
Could that be a new trend in business now? Gather some intelligent, creative minds internally. Shelter them from the core bureaucracy and internal politics and give them plenty of time and tools to come up with something great.
Nicely done, Yahoo and Brickhouse!
I would have expected something like this to come from Google, wouldn’t you?
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