Well, not really. Yahoo has a new service called Yahoo Pipes. It is an AJAX based RIA that let’s average Joe developers create data mashups by taking sources like Google searches, RSS feeds, and Flickr, and piping them into each other. You can use it as a feed aggregrator to create highly personalized feeds. You can ask for user inputs and there are a lot of good examples out there. I wanted to build a mashup that shows Basecamp projects by geographic location but something like that is not available yet since Basecamp requires the ability to make REST based web service calls with basic authentication. This is more RSS centered but I am sure more features are coming. There are some cool eBay and Craigslist mashups out there all ready.

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