One thing we like to do at Gagglescape is find new digital tools developers are using that will ultimately change the way people use the Internet. The latest trend are amenities that make it easier to either build or, figuratively, deconstruct complex websites.

Last week I was introduced to Yahoo's new developer tool, pipes. According to Yahoo:

pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant.

In the world of mash-ups and feed-grabs Pipes allows for rapid development of complex websites.

Technorati describes pipes this way:

The beauty of the application is with its simplicity - a user can take any sources, user input requests or the above mentioned module and drag+drop them into place and then connect the pipes. Within minutes I had built an application (also known as a pipe, they should probably change the name as not everything can be a pipe) that would search for ‘Techcrunch’ in a variety of feeds, bring that data together, sort it and filter it for unique results. I saved the application and published it, from where I can now execute it at any time and receive the output in a variety of formats. I can take a copy of an existing pipe (application, argggh) and use it as a base template for my own pipe and I can browse an existing library of pipes.

Take a look at it. Of course, right now - 8:10 Wednesday morning - the site is offline. Maybe it is so popular that too many users are embracing it.

Tomorrow we'll look at a new Firefox plugin that is so cool it defies superlatives.