At ETech today I sat in on a session titled "Pipes: A Tool for Remixing the Web" by Pasha Sadri and Jonathan Trevor of Yahoo! In the company's words, "Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code."All in all, very cool . . . and it got me thinking about the concept of taking the output of one feed on the web and using it as the INPUT for another, etc. When you add the capabilities that Pipes adds to loop, iterate, and branch, you wind up with a powerful programming tool for turning existing data sources into something completely new.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
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