Overview: Since the query part of views is pluggable there could be created connections, for examples to a lot of services of the web 2.0
Description:
Some examples of services/apis which could be included
- RDF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework - XML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml - Facebook
Available informations about it: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fql.query - Yahoo Query Language (YQL)
Alternative to querying Facebook directly, since it already supports quite a lot services through Open Data Tables - Google Base Data API
Google allows you to host any kind of data and query them later. You can both query for items and the metadata.
Additional views could be used to import data with feeds. Then feeds could import from facebook, for example.
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Difficulty: Medium