I mentioned in comments of my introductory post about Yahoo Pipes that I would be creating a few of them to better illustrate some of the functionality that is possible. If you recall, my first Yahoo Pipe was a visualization of this blog in Flickr photos, specifically the recent entries in my RSS feed.
Today I have created another Yahoo Pipe to highlight a different kind of functionality. This would is a bit simpler to create than the last entry, yet it is just as useful if not more so. The Yahoo Pipe I have created is called Jon Holato in German. As you’re certainly aware, the internet is a global market with a global audience, and not everyone in the world speaks English. Today I’ll be showing you how to syndicate your site in German through Yahoo Pipes, for the benefit of all our friends in Germany. For the record I do not speak an inkling of German so everything you will see is straight from Yahoo Pipes.
This pipe is very simple as there are only two necessary steps to achieve of goal of syndicating in German. Step 1 is pulling in the data source that we want to turn into German. To accomplish this we simply need to use a Fetch pipe where we will copy and paste the link to our RSS feed. The pipe we’re using for step 2 is just the Babelfish operator, where we select a “from and to languages,” in this case I selected “English to German.” Once these two pipes are made just connect the Fetch to Babelfish and then connect Babelfish to Pipe Output and you’re done. If you’ve done this correctly your pipe should look as follows:
If this is how yours looks go ahead and run the pipe and check out your RSS feed in German.
Now you are syndicating in another language and are able to reach millions of potential customers. Recall that “Subscribe” drop down menu on the right-hand side of this output page. 