I’ve recently signed up for the Microsoft Popfly alpha build. (NOTE: You will need a Microsoft Account to sign up for the waiting list.) Popfly is a Silverlight (A web browser plug-in similar to Flash) based application to create widgets and mini-apps that mash up data from other online apps. You can join together services such as RRS Feeds, Yahoo! Answers, Twitter, Flickr, Digg and much more. Although you might think that this application is similar to Yahoo Pipes, it’s not. Microsoft has really done a great job developing this web-app and using Siverlight to its fullest potential (as far as I can see, I will be very surprised if Siverlight can do much more that this).

When using it, you quickly notice how simple it is to control things around on the screen, and the animations make it look quite cool. Not only can you create Mashups, but also a website without any prior HTML knowledge. I’ll be adding more posts about it as the program progresses into its final form.

Microsoft Popfly (Credit: Microsoft)

Yahoo Pipes (Credit: Techcrunch.com)