Today, I am gonna talk about a very useful service offered by Yahoo that makes your internet experience better than before.
The service is called as Yahoo Pipes. The service is a very good tool for users who want to get information within different resources on the web. You can gather, filter and sort –and possible more- the information from different sources and publish this information with different ways.
I suggest you to go to the site and play a little bit and you will grasp the details of the service and learn how it can be used for your convenience.
Here, I want to discuss how Yahoo pipes saves a lot of time for me and my readers. As you all know, I have been writing different blogs. And if any one of my reader wants to check whether I post a new message, it should revisit the site or subscribe for each blog's feeds. However, by using Yahoo Pipes, I combined the feeds of my blogs together, so from now on, everyone can get updates of my blog post just subscribing this newly created feed.
Let's see how I managed to do that.
When you visit pipes.yahoo.com and log on using your Yahoo ID, you see a link of "create a new pipe". Here from there, you can begin constructing your pipe.
Below, you see the graphical representation of my pipe. 
As you can see there are four components of it:
Fetch Feed: This object can be added from Sources from left pane. After adding this object, I start adding my URLs of my blogs' feeds. That is just all.
Filter: This object is used for filtering the information. It can be reached from Operators category from left pane. Here, there is a very simple rule which tells that only the author of the item.author.name attribute containing Sinan can be permitted to go through this filter.
Sort: This is another object form Operators that is used for sorting. Here in my case, all of the items are sorted by item.pubDate in Descending Order. This means that all of my blog posts will be resorted by the newest at the top.
Pipe output: This is the final object that is to sell that pipe should give some output. When you click on it, you see the output of your pipe in the pane at the bottom.
Finally, I saved the pipe and published it using the buttons on the top right. Now, everyone can see the output of my pipe by going to the URL provided by Yahoo Pipes.
Notice that I also used FeedBurner to fetch this newly created feed in order to see the statistics of user activity. But it is totally different story and the service is not related to Yahoo Pipes. You can get information about how to integrate FeedBurner to your Blogger blogs from my another blog post.
That's all.
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