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Pre-Fabricated Pipes

If you use RSS to keep up with the latest in news, technology, and other issues, you might agree with me that the ultimate use of RSS is the ability to create your own, dedicated RSS feeds -- otherwise, you're stuck receiving the news headlines that others think are important. There are a few tools out there that allow you to create your own RSS feed, including the early Kebberfegg, where all you have to do is plug in a few search terms and RSS feeds are generated for you instantly. But then Yahoo! Pipes, which totally blew me away. Pipes is an awesome RSS-creation tool; you can mash together multiple feeds, filter those feeds so that only news items with certain words are delivered, filter out duplicate feeds, and oh, so much more. The problem with Pipes is that it's too good -- there are just so many options for creating an RSS feed, the casual or less advanced RSS user is sure to get confused. I sure do. That's why it's a great feature of Pipes that you can use a Pipe that anyone has created -- in fact, there's a way to Browse the Pipes, to find one that suits your interest. But Read/Write Web has made it even easier for us; they have put together The Ultimate Yahoo! Pipes Creation List, with some great mashup feeds that you can use in your own newsreader.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on May 30, 2008 (boomark / email).