Having read the article, I'm still not really sure what a 'Hosted App Platforms' actually is, or how it solves the problems listed. I wonder if a better soluti

Having read the article, I'm still not really sure what a 'Hosted App Platforms' actually is, or how it solves the problems listed. I wonder if a better solution is something like Yahoo Pipes [1]. [1] http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/