Yahoo! Pipes versus Google Feedburner

Early November Google Feedburner started to have issues with feeds coming from Yahoo! Pipes:

Error getting URL: 999 – Unknown

This error message caused a lot of discussions at both Google and Yahoo! forums (e.g., here, here, and here) and others started to blog about it. Someone provided a workaround using a PHP script but this requires a Web server where this script is running.

Therefore, I discovered another workaround which is http://www.xfruits.com/ that one simply can put in between Yahoo! Pipes and Google Feedburner. That is, just take the output feed of Yahoo! Pipes, use it as input to http://www.xfruits.com/ and burn this output using Google Feedburner and your feeds are back online again ....
PS: http://www.xfruits.com/ offers also other features which look very interesting.
PPS: I'm not affiliated with http://www.xfruits.com/and just found it during my search for a workaround to the 999 error issue.

Blog your publications, filter, and burn it right this instant

I've started blogging rather late but I quickly realized that it can be used to publish/distribute information much faster than traditional schemes. After a while I thought such a scheme could be adopted for research articles. Therefore, I've set up a blog for our research group comprising our articles published elsewhere. Each entry is categorized based on the type of publication (workshop, conference, journal, etc.) and to which project it can be associated (and acknowledged). Interestingly, one can comment on each article providing direct feedback to the authors paving a new way of a scientific discourse. With Yahoo Pipes one can filter the content of the blog (more precisely its RSS feed) according to certain criteria. For example, publications written within a certain project can be re-distributed on another Web site from a centralized database (i.e., the blog). Before doing so, I've used another service called Feedburner (now acquired by Google) which allows smooth re-purposing of RSS feeds. For example, I've incorporated a headline animator to our group's web site.

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

Furthermore, the newest publications appear on our publication's Web site in full length with some built-in interactivity (e.g., save to del.icio.us, share on Facebook, etc.) thanks to Feedburner. Finally, any update on this blog is fed into Twitter via Twitterfeed every half an hour or so. Twitter updates itself can be incorporated into any Web site as HTML or even Flash. Also, bookmarks related to conferences, workshops, etc. from some group members (e.g., timse7, itecmmc) are aggregated using Yahoo Pipes, burnt with Feedburner, re-purposed at our link's Web site, and, finally, fed into Twitter. Wow, and everything with a few clicks without any/much coding (okay, okay, you have to copy/paste some HTML snippets but this is doable for everyone, I guess). Long live Web 2.0.... would be interesting to see such an approach being fully adopted within IEEE Computing Now!