http://datapipes.okfnlabs.org/ - new alpha service from @OKFNLabs'ers providing streaming data transformation for #CSV

Here's the original heads-up to list plus thread ...

http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-labs/2013-May/000790.html

# Other stuff mentioned in feedback

* yahoo pipes
* livesheets / supernode (Daniel Maxwell - prob should follow up)
  * livesheets.com (seems like it is sort of shuttered now)
  * http://thesupernode.org/ - non-profit-ish ...
* querytree <http://querytreeapp.com/>

# Difference from Excel, Gdocs etc

* Fundamentally not a spreadsheet. No GUI etc. Its an API
* Online (Excel), bulk data transform (not complex calculations)


# Difference from Yahoo Pipes

* It's open-source, deployable and hackable by anyone
   - this is also relevant for the future (will y! pipes still be around?)
* DataPipes focused on "data-y" stuff rather than "web-y" stuff (CSV and possibly plain text rather than RSS etc)
* More geeky: it's about urls and curl etc not having a visual
designer (about automating some tasks)
  - focus also on the unix style commands on files (repeat what you
do locally - or share that with others)
  - share the same command against different urls
  - Geek oriented - there's no nice GUI (like Y! pipes) and this is API driven and inspired by unix commands!
* Streaming data (and more of it): it may be just my impression but Yahoo pipes often seems to be very small (e.g. 10-100 line datasets) whereas this would be for CSV files that could be 1000s (or 100k) items


# Other stuff

Play up node.js stuff - natural fit with web and streams.

Node as the unix of the web (??)