Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes 164
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from the nose-meet-knife dept.
from the nose-meet-knife dept.
Romy Maxwell posted a blog piece on Craigslist apparently shutting off access to Yahoo Pipes. Maxwell was working on a project, one of 2,111 using Craigslist as a data source, for a (non-commercial) Pipes-based mashup. He sent Craig Newmark an invitation to the alpha test, after a few rounds of friendly communication — "...as a rule of thumb, okay to use RSS feeds for noncommercial purposes." The apparent response, 4 days later, was for Craigslist to redirect any request with an HTTP referrer of pipes.yahoo.com to the Craigslist home page. Maxwell writes: "It's a sad day for me. I'm not too upset about my own project, as Flippity was already removing Craigslist as a data source. With the likes of eBay and Oodle not only providing open APIs but encouraging and rewarding developers, spending my time wrestling with Craigslist is just plain stupid and exhausting. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have come to that conclusion, and I wish it were different. ... If Craigslist wants to keep its doors shut to the world, so be it."
Pipes? (Score:0, Funny)
All this time I thought it was tubes.
One Yahoo is enough (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I Wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
As a person willing to drive to get what I want, I am saddened and dismayed that I cannot search within x miles. A simple interface is one thing; lacking important and useful features is a huge failure, and the minute something else comes along that is craiglist plus a worthy search, craigslist is over.
Fow what it's worth... (Score:2, Funny)
I've moved a lot the last few years. I find personally that craigslist was mostly genuine in areas with a lot of smaller towns, whereas in larger metro areas, it's generally loaded with spam and scams.
That being said, it's definitely easier to find yourself a happy ending massage parlor in the bigger areas.
Re:the rationale involved has already been explain (Score:4, Funny)
Well, ok, but you have to admit that single-handedly destroying the newspaper business model is pretty impressive. Not too many people can say they've collapsed an industry.
Re:The reason is obvious (Score:1, Funny)
Now I know who is posting granny-with-whip-4mmmm
Re:Mashups... Last year's cloud computing. (Score:2, Funny)