If you missed it, two very important web services were released (in beta) in the past few months: Teqlo and Yahoo Pipes. Rok covered Yahoo Pipes a few times over on RSS Diary. I talked a bit about Teqlo over at 901am.

To summarize, Yahoo Pipes lets you take source web feeds, add some filtering rules, then produce a custom feed from the result. Teqlo goes a step further and lets you build plug and play web applications with no programming whatsoever. And the beautiful part is that you can build web apps fast. For example, they claim you can build an RSS feed reader in under two minutes. And it's true. I did it, and even threw in a few extra features to create a custom feed reader with a to-do-list, Google Calendar, email send, blog post builder, and more. A custom feed-based research tool in just a few minutes.

And with all the Teqlo widgets currently available (including Google Maps, Google Calendar, video, contact lists, etc.), there are a great number of possible applications that you can build that would be suitable for marketing tasks.

Now that I'm posting again here at RSS Cases, I'll be building case studies for both Teqlo and Yahoo Pipes. If you want to see something in particular, drop a comment and I'll try to put together an application and/or Pipe. A few screencasts for Yahoo Pipes are coming, and possibly for Teqlo as well. I'll be more than happy to run a case study on your web business, though because of other commitments, it may take me time to get through each.

(c) Raj Kumar Dash / Chameleon Integration Systems.