OneMind

Wow. I just finished attending a Webcast from O’Reilly Media about Yahoo’s YQL (Yahoo Query Language) an SQL-like tool for accessing data virtually anywhere on the Web, combining data from multiple sites into an app, transforming and filtering data. Very interesting. Not only that, but the YQL team just released today the ability to change content with queries. This makes it really easy for developers to create new and better-integrated ways of updating things like blog posts, Twitter tweets, etc.

It appears that you can turn any Web site into tabular data that can then be used in your Web app as you would any data from more common sources. The YQL activity is part of the Yahoo Platform team’s effort and is closely related to Yahoo Pipes. Read more