If someone thinks that only Google do (do they?) cool things exposing SOA-like stuff via nice Web 2.0 widgets, this is not quite so. Look at this invention of Yahoo – Yahoo Pipes. As they say, “look ma, no coding, just dragging and dropping!”

This is really interesting stuff – allows to play with programmable web without programming.

Really, the stuff we can create with these Yahoo Pipes on the Web is limited only to our imagination… Well, maybe constrained by available feeds/services. The Yahoo Pipes drew some attention right away, of course…

A meaningful example – eBay price watch.

This Pipes editor reminds me Tibco Integration Manager, an expensive integration product, which we were using at Kiala. The product sucked, but somehow used to do the job. The world has changed – some simple version of such monster is available via WWW for free to play, and Tibco ships AJAX interface…

Here is how a cool meets a scalable ;) We all want her to be smart, beautiful and maybe rich ;)

OK, gotta pack and catch my flight in a few hours. Kind of “dushas, iklotas, oro uosto parkingas, Lufthansa ” weekly routine ;)
See you on Saturday.