Gives you a map showing story locations from the Summer 2008 California wildfires. Also includes related photos from flickr and video from blinkx on the disaster.
Enter a city name and radius to search and get buoys that give weather and water information. Uses data from the National Data Buoy Center. Great for tracking a hurricane since it gives early indicators, based on wave height, of where the storm may go.
Runs a search of RSS feeds against popular web sites- digg, engadget, gizmodo, slashdot, and the register. Then, you can click the extra link in the results to launch a more detailed Yahoo search on your topic of interest.
This pipe extracts key terms from a feed (NY Times) and translates the individual terms into Spanish and German. You can combine any languages (just clone it) and learn some new terms.
This pipe extracts key terms from a feed (NY Times) and translates the individual terms into Spanish. The English and Spanish results are output so you can try to learn common terms. You can apply this technique to any languages, but translations are not always accurate...