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1. screenscrape NV Attendees wiki page, then use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and search all their pages on any term

Ingredients:

• http://wiki.northernvoice.ca/Attendees
• http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/8LbS_uC92xGCU_a_ZoQMOQ (swl derivative of hirst) or http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/iLUPNvq92xGeE5B7r8cPhQ (chris lott derivative of hirst)
• http://www.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/tmp/OPML_692d18a0f1be497f451fab77bfe44aeb.xml or
• http://www.dappit.com/transform.php?dappName=urlsforNV2007attendeesfeed&transformer=RSS&

2. feed of all job postings in post-secondary institutions

Ingredients

• institutional job postings pages without RSS feeds (e.g. http://www.camosun.bc.ca/hr/employment.html)
• Dappit, e.g. http://www.dappit.com/dapp-howto-use.php?dappName=CamosunJobPostings
• Pipes

3. simple hack to search Amazon for titles related to your del.icio.us tags

Ingredients:

• http://del.icio.us/nessman
• http://del.icio.us/help/json/tags
• http://blog.unto.net/work/aws_opensearch/

4. simple hack to search Google for pages related to your del.icio.us tags

Ingredients:

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• http://del.icio.us/nessman
• http://del.icio.us/help/json/tags
• http://alpha.openkapow.com/files/folders/tutorials_and_examples/entry5797.asp

5. creating structured data (whether it be RSS, XML, JSON, etc) from any web page using either Dapper (http://www.dappit.com/) Screen Scraper (http://www.screen-scraper.com/) or OpenKapow (http://openkapow.com/)

• cf. also zoomclouds to create tagclouds automagically from these new RSS feeds http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/

Other experiments

• search the mashup moosecamp organizers feeds - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/_LxrUgjB2xGrbMbRFG_cUw/
• see everything they have been posting about on a timeline - http://apassant.net/home/2006/07/rss2timeline/ )if we can get it to work; keeps crapping out on Pipes urls)

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