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The hot new thing for today seems to be Yahoo pipes which Andy pointed out to me. Roo has already had a quick go.

I’ve had a little play around and it looks very promising, the interface is nice especially the little bendy pipe connections. I’d say it’s pretty much pushing the bounds of what DHTML is capable of and it just goes to show how far browser technology has come in the last 5 years. I remember only 3 or 4 years ago the professional mantra coming from senior web architects was to use as little client side script as possible, I used to have a hard time convincing them that it was ok to use a bit of javascript and could make sites more useable.

I can’t go on without linking it to the QEDWiki project, which is also aimed at providing a platform for creating Mashups. However the difference is that QEDWiki is aimed more at being a Mashup technology for the enterprise, you can download it install it within the company firewall. Then just hook it into your internal company feeds pull in any external sources you need and quickly create situational applications that can be used for specific projects or situations that arise in day to day business.

Back on the Yahoo Pipes theme though, here’s the result of my quick play around. It’s basically a filter on a bunch of secondlife feeds to return any the mention IBM in the content.

Here’s the feed