All joking aside the new Yahoo “pipes” service looks pretty bad ass for creating your own useful mashups of information on the internet. It turns out that even Yahoo underestimated the power of getting BoingBoing’d
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.
