Yahoo Pipes: DIY mash-ups

Yahoo actually released a product so ahead of the curve that industry analysts are shocked that Google didn't beat them to the punch and the site was overwhelmed with traffic and down for most of yesterday.

Yahoo Pipes is an online app that allows users to create their own mashups via drag-and-drop, currently using RSS and Atom feeds. They hope to expand to other technologies in the future, allowing users to combine multiple online calendars, Google Maps, news feeds, blog feeds, etc. into a single data center.

Tim O'Reilly called it "a milestone in the history of the internet."

I tried it out last night, and while it's not the easiest thing to to figure out, I see the potential.