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people - even less tech-savvy ones - are starting to create all kinds of interesting Pipes…

• automated babelfish-translation (english -> german) of Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code show-notes
• P2P-Blog utlitizes a custom del.icio.us-tag to keep track of all blog-posts you have commented on
• this pipe mashes data from Yahoo! Local with flickr to find localized imagest
• Nick Bradbury’s YouTunes combines iTunes Top 10 Songs-feed with matching YoutTube-clips
• my own vanity pipe combines results from Technorati & Gooble Blog Search to keep you updated on what’s been written about you/your product/your company

wow, the whole web is singing the praises of Yahoo! Tubes Pipes, a new mashup-service announced earlier today. unfortunately, the Pipes-servers haven’t been responding for most of the evening, Yahoo’s engineers have either underestimated the impact of this announcement or the ressources a service which could be described best as universal RSS-mashup-engine might suck up. however, from what I’ve seen in the short period of availability, Pipes offers a drag&drop interface which allows users to query, combine, filter, merge etc various source-feeds into one output-feed. besides pre-defined RSS-sources (including Google Base, surprisingly), users may of course add any given RSS-feed (OPML-support seems to miss). very promising so far, lets hope the plombers fix the Pipes soon…

(screenshot courtesy of TechCrunch)