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title: "Web News: Pipes, Windows Live Hotmail & Mobile 6, Baidu Video Search, IBM QEDWiki"
date: 2007-02-08
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2007"
    url: "/tag/2007.md"
---

# Web News: Pipes, Windows Live Hotmail & Mobile 6, Baidu Video Search, IBM QEDWiki

**– Is that a [pipe in your pocket](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://pipes.yahoo.com/), or are you just pleased to see me?**; as expected, geeks (myself included) are drooling over [Yahoo Pipes](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_rss_remixer.php), the new RSS Remix service. Indeed the demand has caused some outages. I particularly recommend the following coverage: [O’Reilly Radar](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes_and_filte.html) (although “milestone in the history of the internet” is possibly overstating it), [Dave Winer](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://stories.scripting.com/2007/02/08/pipesInvestigation.html) (“Pipes users are likely to be fairly technical scripting-level users”), [Anil Dash](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/02/08/yahoo_pipes) (“Yahoo has stepped up to provide an essential platform in a way that seems open and approachable”), [Nik Cubrilovic](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/07/yahoo-launches-pipes/) (“The fact that they include Google Base as a default source in Pipes shows that the web is much more about interoperability than the desktop ever was or ever will be”) and [Jeremy Zawodny](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008513.html), who has more Pipes links than you can shake a pipe at.

**– [Windows Live Hotmail Announced](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://mailcall.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CC9301187A51FE33!29123.entry)**; Microsoft has decided to keep the “Hotmail” brand in the name of their Windows Live Mail service. Also check out [ this comparison](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/08/a-comparison-of-live-hotmail-gmail-and-yahoo-mail/) of web mail services over at Techcrunch, where they say that Windows Live Hotmail isn’t as good as Gmail or Yahoo Mail.

**– [Microsoft to unveil Windows Mobile 6](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-6157387.html)**; in actual product news, Microsoft is set to unveil Windows Mobile 6, the latest iteration of their mobile OS, at the [3GSM trade show in Barcelona](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://3gsmworldcongress.com/). New phones using the OS are expected in second half of this year.

**– [Baidu Launches Video Search](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://www.cwrblog.net/476/baidu-launches-video-search.html)**; China’s biggest search engine releases video search, possibly in response to a couple of their local competitors.

**– [IBM releases QEDWiki](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/qedwiki)**; described as an “Enterprise Mashup Maker”, this app lets users access IBM’s mashup maker to answer real-life business needs. There’s also [a YouTube video](https://web.archive.org/web/20100712132715/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIq9t9Gqs) demonstrating it. Pretty hard core geeky, but great to see IBM exploring ‘web 2.0’ technologies more nowadays.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_news_pipes_hotmail_baidu_ibm.php))*