I think Yahoo Pipes is really cool. The main attraction is its slick user interface and ease of use.
I just created a pipe of all of the Recent Questions of Yedda translated using Babelfish to French and it took less than 5 minutes.
I do have a couple of ideas that I think will make Yahoo Pipes into something very interesting:
- Accept Regular HTML pages
- Have a built-in Microformats parser
- Support for a more complex piping scripting (perhaps in the form of a JavaScript script)
- Support for state saving (or at least a limited way such as the ability to compare the previous version of the page/feed you are piping)
**Accept Regular HTML pages
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