Indeed, you can do so right now by going
to the list of pipes I created for this chapter and cloning and modifying them for your own use:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/tag.info?namespace=user&tag=mashupguide
This section used feeds that are relatively easy to access. If you start to use tools such as
Openkapow.com to screen-scrape new feeds, you have even more combinatorial possibilities for
your mashups. Note that other tools that I discuss later in the book (such as the Google Mashup
Editor) are able to consume feeds, such as those generated by Yahoo! Pipes and Feedburner.
Summary
Feeds provide the backbone of data exchange for mashups. Many web sites??”including Flickr??”
generate feeds, particularly in the RSS and Atom formats. In this chapter, you learned about
the ecosystem that has arisen around this plethora of feeds: news aggregators that gather
feeds for reading, validators that help you produce good feeds, scrapers that let you generate
feeds when a web site doesn??™t provide one, and remixing tools that let you generate elaborate
mashups of feeds. In an extended example of mashups based on feeds, I showed how to use
Yahoo! Pipes to generate a single topical news feed that is a mashup of several other appropriately
filtered feeds.
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Integrating with Blogs
Blogs (also known as weblogs) have become lightweight, general-purpose platforms for publication,
self-expression, and collaboration.
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