SWL+Mashup+Working+Notes

Screen Scrapers
 * http://www.screen-scraper.com/
 * http://www.dappit.com/
 * http://openkapow.com/Default.aspx

Ideas
 * 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/) [p.s. that last one you got to check out; very cool authoring tool to create quite complex scrappers]
 * cf. also zoomclouds to create tagclouds automagically from these new RSS feeds http://zoomclouds.egrupos.net/


 * screenscrape Nv Attendees wiki page, then use Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and filter all their feeds for posts on NV
 * Ingredients:
 * http://wiki.northernvoice.ca/Attendees
 * http://www.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/tmp/OPML_692d18a0f1be497f451fab77bfe44aeb.xml or http://www.dappit.com/transform.php?dappName=urlsforNV2007attendeesfeed&transformer=RSS&applyToUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.northernvoice.ca%2FAttendees&extraArg_title=urls&extraArg_link=urls%40href
 * 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)


 * simple hack to search Amazon for titles related to your del.icio.us tags
 * Ingredients:
 * http://del.icio.us/help/json/tags
 * http://blog.unto.net/work/aws_opensearch/


 * simple hack to search Google for pages related to your del.icio.us tags
 * ingredients:
 * http://del.icio.us/help/json/tags
 * http://alpha.openkapow.com/files/folders/tutorials_and_examples/entry5797.aspx


 * map of nice public washrooms in victoria (http://www.thebathroomdiaries.com/canada/british+columbia/victoria.html with Google maps)
 * how to create an annotated multimedia google map (cf. http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/08/how-to-make-your-own-annotated-multimedia-google-map/)

or how about this for a cool and easy one: RSStoGEORSS convertor and mapper - http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html just give it an RSS feed, e.g. http://www.travelblog.org/rss/6-location.xml, and it will automatically extract the place names, geocode them, and build a map of the locations. Wicked!

also, see http://apassant.net/home/2006/07/rss2timeline/ - very cool timeline visualizer for RSS feeds