Read & Write Web: Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database
A great application would be this:
- Take the whole feedosphere (I mean, all the information published via site feeds, a.k.a. RSS feeds).
- Yahoo! Pipes would cherry-pick the items containing the key phrases “prediction markets”, “event derivatives”, “event futures”, “betting exchanges”, “prediction exchanges”, etc., etc., etc.
- And it would deliver that as a single, mashed-up, generic, prediction market feed —I will be the first subscriber!!!
Another idea would be:
- A single, mashed-up, multi-exchanges, expiry contract feed. I wonder whether the prediction exchanges would allow that for free —I mean, without charging for API usage.
(As I said, John Delaney’s idea of a multi-exchange platform/website is totally dumb and will go no-where. Leave that aggregation task to some third parties using clever technology, like Yahoo! Pipes or else; and let them compete with each other.)
Any idea, folks??
Addendum:
- Create your master feed with Yahoo! Pipes -
If you’ve got natural language processing technology that is ahead of everyone else, please share. Otherwise, you might have to wait for OWL,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
Daniel, a) what makes you think you need NLP to obtain what CFM wants and b) don’t you mean massive deployment of OWL?
Anyhow http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/rjNfVNC82xG2IO5BzKky6g is a pipe aggregating three pm-related feeds. It would be trivial to add lots more.
There would be lots of nice features to have in Y! pipes, but it is a very cool demo verging on being really useful.
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Hi Mike -
You are correct. What CFM wants is simple, and can be provided with RSS aggregators… I was thinking of more advanced applications.
“Massive deployment” of OWL it is. (Although I can defend “wait,” it’s really just semantics.)