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From O'Reilly Radar:

Yahoo! Pipes was released today with the goal of allowing people to easily mix, match, filter, sort and merge data sources into RSS feeds. These resulting RSS feeds are called Pipes and they allow you to do things like find all of the parks in your city or convert the news to Flickr photos. The product allows you to browse pipes, search for pipes, share pipes, or clone somebody else's pipe.

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Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the Internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect Internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output. Yahoo! describes it as "an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator" that allows you to "create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant." While it's still a bit rough around the edges, it has enormous promise in turning the web into a programmable environment for everyone.

Very cool stuff, but "generalizing the idea of the mashup" - wasn't this the job of the Semantic Web? (yea, a pipe like service on RDF would be much, much, cooler).

Even more here and  here.

Labels: Mashup, SemanticWeb