If you’ve ever wanted to know who’s saying what (positive or negative) about you, your blog, your company or even if you want to keep track of other people/companies, the Social Media Firehose is here to help.
User "Kingsley" over at Yahoo! Pipes has compiled the aforementioned script to help you perform that exact scenario. Via a combination of ways, including RSS and email alerts, you can track results that are pulled instantly from a variety of different sources including Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Technorati, Twitter, Blogspot, YouTube, WordPress and more.
If you’re not 100% sure what exactly Yahoo! Pipes is/are, here’s a little information from their site:
Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs. Here are a few popular ways the service can be used:
- create your ultimate custom feed by combining many feeds into one, then sorting, filtering and translating them.
- geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map.
- remix your favorite data sources and use the Pipe to power a new application.
- build custom vertical search pages that are impossible with ordinary search engines.
- power widgets/badges on your web site.
- consume the output of any Pipe in RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats.
