As 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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