For once, Yahoo is leading the pack with it’s new release of Yahoo Pipes. The new service essentially allows users to ‘remix’ their own custom RSS feeds based on existing data on the web. Yahoo provides this explanation of their latest toy:

“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.