Thursday, May 29, 2008

Thing #19: I'd like to try Yahoo! Pipes

I watched a demo on how to use Yahoo! Pipes. This tool lets you re-mix or mash-up content from around the web. So, for instance, you can take an existing RSS feed and tweek it. In the example, the Yahoo! Sports feed was filtered so that it only delivered stories on tennis or football. That's a simple example, but it looks like there are all kinds of interesting things you could do with this tool. One idea is to embed RSS feeds or maybe Flickr photos in our web pages while filtering out content we may not want displayed, or don't find useful for our customers.

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