Mario Meets Yahoo
TechCrunch has a gushing post about Yahoo! Pipes, which is some sort of graphical RSS-feed-editing service. You can drag little boxes around to combine news feeds, deleting posts that match certain criteria, keeping others, and publishing the result as a new RSS feed.
I can think of some uses for this, but I’m not quite as enthusiastic as Michael Arrington.It’s very slick, but I’m not sure who the intended audience is.
To Yahoo’s credit, the UI is so intuitive that in a few minutes, I’d whipped up a new feed for Guy Kawasaki’s blog that strips out his oh-so-cute minced oaths “bull-shitake” and “full of sushi.” Here’s what it looks like:
Unfortunately, I couldn’t figure out how to replace the phrases—I could only delete the offending posts in their entirety. Call it collateral damage in the war on preciousness.