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I saw some rumours about Yahoo Pipes last week - it went live last night.
Though I haven't had time for more than a cursory look, I have a feeling that this could be pretty important. And I think it has relevance way beyond creating custom news feeds.
If you're familiar with Unix Pipes (eg. "who | sort") you'll grok Yahoo Pipes. Just replace processes with URLs, Feeds, Applications on the Web.
I did have a quick play with the browser-based tool (which is pretty sweet) but I didn't get very far - looks like Yahoo's servers are getting hit hard. They clearly need some of these 
As an example (trivial) use-case, a while back - I wanted to create a unified feed of the build / news feeds from a bunch of java.net projects. Pipes would let you create this pipe in a couple of minutes. When Yahoo servers catch-up - I'll give it a try.
Read more about Pipes on Dave Johnson's blog, Tech Crunch and O'Reilly Radar.
Update - I just tried hitting the service again and get "Our Pipes are clogged! We've called the plumbers!" - too funny. Seriously guys - get some of these.
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