Resource Read / Write Web published a curious
study , the author of which is confident that the new system Yahoo! Pipes, an RSS aggregator that allows you to create personalized information feeds, turns the Internet into one large database.
We, the current Internet users, says Alex Iskold, have witnessed a bright phenomenon - the “mixing” of the Internet. The “crystals” that make up the World Wide Web — blogs, photos, videos, maps, RSS feeds, and simple HTML pages — all this can be found and mixed.
Yahoo! Pipes will become a new “GUI-builder” (that is, a visual assistant) to create a new database, which will be the Internet itself. Combining in a single stream many different sources of information, users can make the most ingenious requests (read - samples from the database) and manipulate them.
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Further development of Yahoo! Alex Iskold sees Pipes in more thorough data structuring and user interface improvements.