Planet Nature, Yahoo Pipes and Custom Search

July 16, 2007

This blog is supposed to be at the interface of biology and information technology. Well I have seen few example at that interface in recent days that beat Planet Nature. Planet Nature is the portal to all the Nature blogs. I love the clean interface and the ability to access individual feeds if required. It takes advantage of Google Custom Search (I should probably add Planet Nature to my Lijit Wijit). Here is the killer though, especially for the geek in me. Alf has implemented an RSS filter. Enter a keyword and click and filter, and voila, you land up on a Yahoo Pipes page. Way cool!!! The filter checks the RSS feed for any keywords and you can then subscribe to the results. I just subscribed to a couple.

As an aside, you can tell who might be behind the pipes from the avatar on the top right of the pipes page

Technorati Tags: Nature, Yahoo Pipes, Google Custom Search