Blog homeAs has been heavily discussed around the web, the next phase of the web’s evolution will be around consumption (and production) of data services.
One such example is Yahoo who have a very nice API that lets you get at the current weather in any location……
Here is the RSS feed for the current weather in Southampton, UK (which is where I am writing from!)
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=UKXX0138&u=c
Having the data is one thing but the interesting step is letting people work out what to do with it. I rather like the idea that has been demonstrated on CSS-Tricks – they have come up with a means to take the Yahoo weather feed and make your website design reflect the current weather.
If it is cloudy, your website will have a banner that looks cloudy…. if it is sunny, it will be sunny.
I can see this as being quite an interesting little hack that could be applied to many destination websites…. but I expect will get most use on company intranets in large offices without windows…..
Further information and code from CSS-Tricks
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