It’s been called the essence of Web 2.0. It’s the ability to combine pieces of different web sites to create something new, something meaningful. Something for you and the people who have your tastes. Your social network. Not some mass market portal built by corporate programmers who think that they know you and your personal tastes.

Referred to as a composite web site by some and Mashup site by others, we call it amalgamating web data through the process of transcoding. Whatever. It’s about giving you the data that you want on your mobile phone or desktop browser. It’s Web 2.0. It’s about you.

Yahoo! Pipes
Providing conduits through the internet backbone, they combine and filter data feeds to create for you a stream of useful information. They’re Yahoo! Pipes and now Mashup technologies can channel HTML content through them.

RSS Designer Features
The Mashup Designer for RSS Feeds extends the reach of our Mashup development tools to include RSS feeds as deployment clients. In addition to creating the Dynamic XSL that will generate the RSS feed– dynamically extracting remote content from one or more web sites, the Mashup Designer for RSS Feeds also provides an easy-to-use visual tool that helps filter the Mashup content. The filter choices defined by the user in the Mashup Designer for RSS Feeds are used in the code generation of the Dynamic XSL

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