Right after griping about Yahoo, I’m going to give them some props for Pipes. I’m big on RSS. What’s cooler than being able to hack together a feed based on whatever they heck you want?
Technically, I could take all 61 RSS feeds that I’m subscribed to in Google Reader and mash them up into a single RSS feed and filter it with Pipes. That’s pretty cool. I think I’ve only scratched the surface with it too, there’s an interactivity element to it as well that I haven’t tried at all.
In my first experiment I mashed up the feeds from two of my co-workers blogs with the feed from this site. Here’s the page if you want to take a look. You’ll probably have to have a Yahoo! Id to see it.
It basically reads in the RSS files from each of them, does a SQL-like union of the results, sorts it, limits the rows returned and spits out the results.
O, the possiblities.
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