This made me laugh out loud when I discovered it. Remember that Yahoo Pipe I made in about 10 minutes to find apartments in Brooklyn for my sister? Well people are actually using it! Almost 200 runs and 12 clones. Not bad for my first pipe. Here’s a link to it in case you’re looking for apartments in Brooklyn – it’s a cutthroat market over there.

I have to say that as cool as Pipes is, Microsoft’s Popfly is exiting me a lot more. I got to check it out firsthand, and the combination of the thought that went into its UI, combined with the power of Silverlight really kicked my heart up a few BPMs.

Yeah Silverlight is getting a ton of buzz lately – but rightfully so. I just keep thinking there’s a huge downside – like anytime you run a Silverlight app, a baby seal dies. But so far, Microsoft hasn’t disappointed.

For you techies who haven’t put Silverlight on your radar yet, here’s a push that might perk your ears up – it’s not like Flash. You don’t embed a box in your doc for it to render to. It is incorporated into the page renderer – the presentation layer – and works alongside Javascript, DHTML and CSS. Yes you need to extend your browser, but they are trying to support a ton of platforms.

Interested? You should be.

Oh yeah, Silverlight runs on mobiles too:

I wrote this post on Hodgman so Justin couldn’t hear.