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Many would know something about feed aggregators but we have so many of them around at the moment. Say if you are a iGoogle, live.com, De.li.cious, etc member, you have some serious work to get down to just to view stuff that you are interested in. Unless you are capable web-savvy netizen, its hard for you to be able to aggregate all these information to one place and read it from one screen.

Yahoo Pipes have solved this problem. In a nutshell, described by Tim O’Reilly, “it’s a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.” If you have noticed, its a drag and drop editor - no programming required.

I have created a simple pipe by watching the demo. There is a whole lot of operators and functions you can use and not just filtering the information but also do mathematical calculations, union some sites, filter information, location builder and have your own user inputs. After you have done this, save it as RSS, ATOM, JSON, XML and you can use it for yourself or publish it to the WWW or popular search engines.

This is a good example of mashups with ability to improve the quality of the mashed data and it brings mashups to a whole new level.