| − | <br><br>This announcement was considered a landmark decision by journalists who cover social media. Ulrich is infamous for trying to keep people from illegally downloading Metallica's songs from early versions of Napster--going so far as to sue the music service in 2000. In many years ever since then, this guitar rock band has received a fancy and often adversarial relationship with online music services.<br><br>Now, let's say Yahoo! were to embrace filtering becasue it is core proposition, and build from the Pipes idea and experience beneath the guidance of Google's own UI guru -- the identical Ms. Mayer, hopefull applying the lessons of iGoogle's rise and fall --> -- making it easy for its users to filter their worlds more effectively? If you see it, there are numerous services out there that tackle individual aspects of the filtering challenge: professional (e.g. NY Times, Vogue, Car and Driver), social (Facebook), tribal (various groups, subReddits), algorithmic (Amazon-style collaborative filtering), sponsored (e.g., coupon sites). No the first is carrying out a good job of pulling all of these together and allowing me to tailor their spews to my life. Right now it's as much as me to follow Gina Trapani's Lifehacker suggestion, which would be to use Pipes -->.<br><br>
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