Yahoo! Pipes Keynote

One of the coolest mashup technologies around is Yahoo! Pipes.  It's a web-based application that enables you to visually create new web apps by aggregating web feeds and other web services in new ways.  Much like you could create pipes and filters to deal with text on Unix, this enables you to do the same with data coming from web sites. Tim O'Reilly called it "a milestone in the history of the Internet" which is pretty high praise from the guy who coined Web 2.0.  Our MySQL community manager Jay Pipes (no relation :-) worked with one of Yahoo's top MySQL gurus Jeremy Zawodny to arrange to get the guys from Yahoo Pipes into a keynote spot at the MySQL conference next week.  The final description is still being written, but it will be pretty exciting. 

I expect Yahoo! Pipes will have a huge impact in inspiring other forms of mashups inside and outside the Enterprise.  Check out the samples here.

• MySQL Conference: Home, Keynotes, Registration
• O'Reilly Radar: Pipes & Filters for the Internet
• TechCrunch: Yahoo! Launches Pipes
• Read/Write Web: Yahoo! Pipes and the Web as Database
• Blogs: Jay Pipes , Jeremy Zawodny