Yahoo pipes a site that has already been around for a few years but with little fanfare recently added badges to make displaying output easy. According to their site “Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.” It was suppose to be the tool that made mashups possible for the common man. The problem site that you still had to be able to program to get the output in a usable format.

Now though the use of badges it is easy to display pipes data. There is a little code snippet similar to those you get to embed a YouTube video. They also play nice with Google so you can access data from Google search, Base, Feedburner and Blogger.

Here is a Pipe that pulls in Flickr photos and Youtube videos tagged “texasam”

There could be lots of really cool mashups for student life, recruiting and other sites similar to that.

Here is a video from Yahoo about the new features

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