Yahoo Pipes, Microformats and Extendability
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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