OpenSource Connections
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Today, Google announced the launch of its latest application, Google Sites. Google Sites is an application designed to make it easier for those who are not technically savvy to create a web page in just a few steps. While this may create a cottage industry of people who can throw together a personal home page in just a few minutes (a la what Geocities was before Yahoo bought it) for free, what it does not do is make it easier to aggregate data from other sources. Screen scraping, feed aggregation, and mashing up sites still require the same level of knowledge and skill as before.
Google is taking a swipe at Microsofts SharePoint with this application, while Microsoft is taking a swipe at Google by trying to purchase Yahoo! Wouldnt the world be a better place if you could make a website as easily as you can with Sites and have the website aggregation power of Yahoo! Pipes? After all, Pipes mashes up other Google apps, such as Google Maps…or will it require the technical savvy (although this is quite powerful) that something like Bungees PaaS requires?