Yahoo's Pipe service is realy great. You can build a webservices with webservices via a drop and drag interface that feels so naturally it feels like you are running a native application. I couldnt believe this was done in HTML/Ajax/DHTML/buzzword. It *really* feels like a native application.
So I played with it a bit and within a couple of minutes I made a "webservice" that searches for "Drupal" content from
- www.google.com
- ebay.com
- flickr.com
- api.ebay.com
- rss.api.ebay.com
- api.flickr.com
(note: the Google search isnt working since Google blocks automated searches But I have it in just in case they get it.)
See it in action at My Pipes.Y! (Y! account needed but you want one to play with Pipes, believe me it is worth the email address!) Play with it here, make it better and share your service. The result is online as well and you can import it as RSS in your feedreader. Never miss anything from Yahoo!, EBay or Flickr again mentioning the word "Drupal".
Tim can stop defining "Web 2.0" and just point towards this pipe site; easy, rich application, mashups, RSS, hell take one buzzword 2.0 and see if that doesnt fit in this pipes.
If the Internet is not a big truck. And it is not "a series of tubes.", it is pipes! And we are plumbing!