Disrupt the web with Views 3 and YQL

Track: 
Implementation and Config
Experience: 
Intermediate

Views 3 allows querying against data tables outside your Drupal site. Yahoo Query Language (YQL) provides a uniform interface to almost 1000 sources across the web. Combine the two and you can use Flickr images, Twitter comments, Google search results and much more inside Views as if it was your own data. This session will show you how to create disruptive web solutions without coding, unleashing some of the newest features available in Drupal.

Intended audience: 

Drupal configurators with at least some experience with Views.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How can I use external data in Views?
Question 2: 
How can I get dynamic Twitter queries displayed on my Drupal site?
Question 3: 
How can I get Google backlinks on my site?
Question 4: 
How can I manipulate and reuse YQL data inside Views?
Question 5: 
How can I use Views arguments together with YQL in an efficient way?
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