Ajaxian has a post on Yahoo!’s latest and greatest: pipes. I haven’t had the time (and am not likely to get the time) . I’m somewhat blown away. It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder what the interweb is gonna be like in a few years. I’m beginning to think that I am going to need a Gibson-esque Johnny Mnemonic port or something.

Crafty. Very crafty.

Yahoo! has a new service called Pipes that aims to make it easy to build mashups:

Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.

The UI is a rich Ajax application using YUI of course. It is the kind of UI that feels like Flash, but then you do a view source and you see:

	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/yahoo-dom-event_2.1.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/connection_2.1.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/animation_2.1.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/utils/2/dragdrop_2.1.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/common/widgets/2/logger/logger_2.1.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/maxwell.js"></script>

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