The Morning Reboot:
- Yahoo has announced a new service, dubbed pipes, that lets you mashup web services to create custom RSS feeds. Pipes features a drag and drop editor that lets you grab data sources, combine them and then generates RSS feeds for your mashups. Examples include a NYTimes-Flickr mashup that matches NYTimes headlines to relevant images.
- Mozilla has released Firefox 3 alpha 2. The build is intended for developers only, with the final product slated to ship sometime later this year.
- Sun has announced an ODF plugin for Microsoft Word 2003. Organizations looking to switch from proprietary document formats to open standards can download the plugin beginning in April. A similar plugin from Microsoft is already available. There's some screenshots on the Sun blogs.
- Office apps will be bundled with Windows Mobile 6. Microsoft will be release Windows Mobile 6 next week and plans to pre-load it with mobile versions of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
