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The Web Monkeys among you have surely heard of Yahoo Pipes by now, Yahoo's new hosted, declarative "programming" environment for creating interesting Web 2.0 mashups (eg, Google Base + Yahoo Search + del.icio.us etc).

If you are an OTN Semantic Web user however you can already do a variation of that operation, for all Oracle content syndicated via RSS. Basically, you can create topic-specific mashups from various Oracle RSS feeds.

For example, want to create a "live" bookmark in FF that contains all Oracle syndicated info re: Oracle Fusion Middleware + Identity Management + Java? Build that query from the OTN SemWeb homepage, and then you can cull the results via RSS (look for the orange RSS button in the left nav).

Or, you could even pipe that RSS URL to Pipes, add some third-party Oracle content, and customize your experience even further.

We are in the process of implementing "RSS everywhere" on OTN, in fact, so the possibilities will open up even further. More to come.

This post is simply a shout-out to blogs.oracle.com blogger Alejandro Vargas, who is posting a treasure trove of information about best practices for RAC deployment. Alejandro is a support analyst in the Oracle Israel support org, so he know whereof he speaks.

Now, here's something that Oracle SES does that even Google can't: Make your search results available via RSS. This functionality is now present at search.oracle.com:



Thus, if you are interested in new content published on OTN associated with any given keyword, you can get those results delivered directly to your newsreader.

This has profound implications for content publishing on OTN. Used in conjunction with an XSLT, we'll be able to deliver search results dynamically in html, obviating the need for hard-coded pages (in some cases).