Yahoo! has recently opened up their ‘pipes‘ application, which is a web-based app to visually manipulate XML feeds. Techcrunch has more on this, plus screen shots. The system seems down right now, so I can’t play with it, but it looks to be very interesting. This has the potential to open up the idea of ‘mashups’ to a more mainstream audience, which may increase the pressure for sites/companies to put more of their data in parse-friendly XML feeds.
UPDATE:
I was able to log in for a bit, but any time I added any module to my work area I got ‘proxy errors’. Not sure if it’s a proxy issue here in the building I’m in (but how/why would I get through to the site in the first place?) or something on Yahoo!’s end. Will keep trying later.
