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Yahoo’s Pipes is a visual mashup tool for RSS, GeoRSS and now KML feeds. Pipes has a super slick interface that lets you drag and drop feeds onto each other and their latest release from today adds support for extracting location from GeoRSS or KML feeds. What this means is that any Pipe that contains GeoData is automatically displayed using a Yahoo Map and that you can also get the output for any pipe as KML - which lets anyone make mashups with geographical and then view them in Google Earth. I made a pipe that searches for pictures on Flickr based on the content of Sticky Notes from Socialight. If you want to, you can even check out what it looks like in Google Earth.

We’re really excited that the Pipes team used Socialight in one of their examples - but the others rock too - check them out on the official Pipes blog or in Brady Forrest’s post on the O’Reilly Radar.