As an idea for the new Bonsai Studios website formed, I realized that we needed to combine data from many different services and many different forms. We wanted to introduce our company as a living entity, something that we tend to and care for on the web, because our current site has been neglected (over a year since the last post).
To update our new site without updating it, we wanted to use the various places on the interwebs we do participate actively in to fill in the blanks. Our blogs, twitter accounts, flickr photostreams, etc. As I began to think about the logistics of creating these tremendous feed of information, Yahoo! Pipes came to mind. It’s an incredibly useful tool that basically allows me to aggregate data from as many places as I want, process it, and spit it back out as RSS / JSON / whatever I need.
While the above is still just a sort of proof of concept, I expect to use this to provide all the data for the site in a way I can interpret it and display it for the masses.
DO IT NOW.