With the help of Peter de Haas I found a few SharePoint specialists who have been able to design a very easy but powerful system to connect SharePoint to external services/data without the need to install anything.

With the help of the services they provide, you can do some nice things, for example:

• post updates to a sharepoint list which then get posted to your twitter account (you could use this for a team all twittering in just one account).
• Fill in an adres and a city in a sharepoint list, and they will provide you with the driving directions (google maps), from your location stored in your tunnelpoint account.
• Import a RSS feed into an Sharepoint List.

I did some testing with our BPOS account, and this really works easy. Just a simple few steps you have to do to get it up and running. I tried to import my RSS feed into our BPOS account, it’s just a matter of minutes:

and the result:

You can try it out yourself @: http://tunnelpoint.com/

*edit
I did have some problems with the mobypicture services. After publishing this blogpost, I received a Direct Twitter message from one of the specialists of Tunnelpoint. He connected me to another person here in Holland, and within no time I got an email from him, asking me what the problem was. The problem is solved now (my fault) .