“Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line.”

For more detailed explanations on the tool, check out posts by fellow bloggers Tim O’Reilly, Anil Dash, and Nik Cubrilovic.