Yes! For once on the web the innovation is coming from Yahoo!
Yahoo Pipes(pipes.yahoo.com)is a way to modify RSS feeds, for an example click on the XML part of my blog in the left column, basically RSS is a subscription service where a reader (google reader, i think theres one you see all the time called live bookmarks) will update the blogs/data feed everytime something new comes up. Whats innovative about this is that you can modify the data feed in a really simple interface which you get used to after a while. Some examples are on the site, one of the more unique ones is where this feed takes the headline on the New York Times and makes searches in flicker and gives you a page of just pictures relating to the headlines.
More Goodies when i find it (btw, Pipes isn't new its been on for about a week or so but its new to this blog so thats what matters)
