Now, what do you do, if you are only interested in a few specific items that appear in a particular feed? Well, you could ignore the unimportant posts, mark them read unread or delete them. That’s what one usually does. But there has to be another way. Some sites, like this one, offer a variety of different feeds for every category and tag. It’s easy to pick the topics one is interested in. And for the others? Well, there’s Yahoo Pipes.

With pipes you can do a lot of things. For example you can filter a feed for different search terms. You could also combine several feeds into one. Or build both functions into a whole pipeline, that filters the feeds of many sites and combines the results into a single feed. And after you’re done with that you can just put that through a translator to get the informations in your language.

And those are just examples with feeds. You can also use it to actively filter sites like internet auctions for special items or price ranges. Or manage your whole social networking life via a single pipe. And thanks to a growing API trend on the web you’ll be able to do a lot more over time.

So anyone who is actively using the web should check Pipes out. It’s really helpful.

Go try the Character Manager and tell me what you think. (Since I won’t have the time and/or internet access during the weekend to check it out myself, I’m hoping for another guinea pig.)

Oh and for those, who don’t know Ema’s character sheets: Take a look, they’re great!

Update (a week later): I tryed the service myself, now. While the basic character sheets seem to work somewhat nice, it’s not really distinguishing classes. And spell lists can just be printed, but not modified online. So overall it’s just okay. It would be good enough to store some basic characters, but unfortunally I just discovered that it’s a payed service. To store characters for longer than 3 days, you have to pay. Taking all that into account, it’s not a good service for me. I’d rather code something myself. Still, a nice idea.

Update (May 2009): Oh damn, just found out: Looks like Ema was “asked” by Wizards of the Coast to take down the sheets and thus the site. So, no more fancy character sheets from Ema .

Interessant was man da so alles findet. Von Sportschuhen über Standuhren bis hin zur Luxuslimousine kann man fast alles ersteigern. Und nicht nur der Zoll verkauft auf der Seite, auch das Finanzamt (wie die wohl an das Zeug kommen), Verwertungsstellen aller Art und auch Bauämter werden da ihre Baufahrzeuge los.

Braucht jemand nen Schneepflug für die kommende Jahreszeit?