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Yahoo's piping hot | 080207
When Tim O'Reilly describes something as a 'milestone in the history of the internet' it's definitely worth listening. The something in question is Yahoo Pipes, a clever, visually orientated way of plumbing together data and news feeds into new ways and applying filters to them. This essentially means people can create mashups without knowing how to use code (well, kinda) - take your favourite sources of news and so on, link them together and output only the stuff you're most interested in reading.
It's a cool idea and there are already some interesting uses in the first day or two - though given that, as we've said before, the world at large is still not really hugely aware of RSS and so on, it threatens to be another gimmick that the world of Web 2.0 adores but 95% of humanity doesn't understand. The real world is where most people accidentally type a URL ('whatever that is') into a field for search terms, or vice versa, and where people read the news that Yahoo's home page gives them in the first place.
Nevertheless, it is a great idea, and we'll be watching the way people use it closely.
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