The Live Clipboard is born
Dave Winer teased me a bit this week on an announcement from Ray Ozzie at Etech. Ray has a blog post and a series of screen casts up - so hopefully by the time you read this - this meme will have rocketed up Memeorandum and Tailrank faster than you can shake a rap at Natalie Portman.
Here’s the comment I left at Dave’s post:
I LOVE this idea! Dave is right - if we all work together - this can become a reality.
My first reastions were abut authentication, spam and secruity. But I bet that can all be worked out. The real issue is (and it’s the same issue Kim Cameron ran into) can anyone trust Microsoft to lead us forward - in the world of Open Standards?
I say - lets give them a chance!
So the idea is for a standardized user interface ‘widget’ (Ray is proposing a ’scissors’) which allows one to ‘clip’ data from one site and then - paste it someone else.
We got the standards in place for the data structures, so this ‘user-interface’ gesture completes the scenario.
It’s so simple - it’s one of those smack your forehead and say “why didn’t I think of that!” kind of idea!
This is why we need old timers like, Ray, Dave and myself around - so we can remember what it was like BEFORE the Mac and clipboards and how significant that addition was to our world.
Ray eloquently rehashes the other user standards that we used to have and we’ve gotten used to today - and makes a great argument that a live clipboard is the next logical step in the evolution of the meshed web.
So in summary:
- oh my god, you mean there is actually some emerging technology at the emerging technology conference?
- we can all work together and make this happen! Don’t be afraid that its Microsoft proposing this. Think of it as Ray Ozzie, one of our great elder statesmen and technologists.
- did you catch that Laszlo outputs D HTML now?
I for one LOVE this idea!
March 7th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Sounds a lot like the goal of redirectthis… I haven’t watched any of the screencasts yet though…
March 7th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
[...] Dave (Winer) can sit back, change the world from his desktop and still act cool - when he’s ignored and abused. Ray Ozzie can post a new idea - and have it shoot up Memeorandum and Tailrank, while poor Bill Gross goes broke. Meanwhile Tony Pierce is getting laid and partying like it used to be 1999. [...]
March 7th, 2006 at 6:25 pm
[...] - marc So I hope that helps some of you grok the importance of Ray’s announcement. Makes me glad I’m going to Mix06. But first - SXSW! [...]
March 8th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
[...] I wonder how many people are surprised that it ends up being Microsoft that comes up with something like this. This is real Web 2.0 innovation, yes, but also interesting is that it can remove a key usability advantage that smart-clients have over browser UI. Ironically this helps close the gap between the BUI and the GUI (and we know which one wins this fight when the gap is gone). Now, I really wish I was going to Mix06 — maybe there will be more up their sleeves. BTW, I like the fact that Microsoft is working with Dave Winer on these ideas (OK, maybe it is just Ray Ozzie doing that, I don’t know). Marc Cantor says he loves the Web Clipboard here. I almost misquoted him as saying it was “coolio” — seemed like a safe bet — anyway, it layers well on his work with microformats. [...]
March 12th, 2006 at 4:44 am
Marc,
I’ve just published some thoughts around your concept on my blog at http://jdonat.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-is-missing-in-ray-ozzies-live.html
A snippet:
The Vision
Imagine I find an interesting concert on a web page and want to attend. I would expect to find a simple button on the page which I can press in such a case. In the same time, system identifies me (which is technically possible already today) and asks me to confirm payment for the ticket. It also contacts directly my (web) diary (which is however automatically synchronized with any personal device I use) and writes down the event. In case there is any conflicting appointment, the system lets me know before requesting my payment. Sounds better than a simple cut and paste? Yes, indeed – because this is a real automation. But the story doesn’t finish yet.
Now, the concert is cancelled (…). Instead of driving there and finding a closed hall with a crowd of angry people, the appointment will be automatically removed from my diary (again, no technical problem – who records a particular information is also allowed to change it) and I will be informed about the change just as it occurs (which may be just a function of my diary – so nobody needs to know my personal email, IM, or whatever channel I use; nobody also needs to learn in which way and when I would like to be informed about changes). This would be a good, useful application. And still no rocket science!
Hope it helps you to think about the Life Clipboard concept in a wider perspective.
Regards,
Jiri
March 17th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
[...] Marc Canter: “I for one LOVE this idea!” [...]
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