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March 7, 2006
Etech06 day 2 Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie – “bridge building”
Where is the clipboard of the web? Where is the thing that lets us get information easily from one site to another. Why isn’t the clipboard for the web the clipboard?
Demo – trying for simplicity
Live clipboard – simulates a button control – right click to copy, right click to paste into another button
Implementing a clipboard on the clipboard
Some data structures
Copying in a non-geeky fashion – just copying from page to page
Also uses an applet to augment windows clipboard so that you can save items in standard formats in standard programs to and from web
You can also insert feeds
Representing data in microformats so that users could wire up websites.
Also can help maintain profiles live – provides “live updates” function that links to rss feed from one piece of information to another
Easy to create programmatically chained feeds – so that one feed feeds into another very simply – that’s wiring the web
He has also enabled live clipboard icons on images in Flickr, so that copying image also copies what the page wants to tell him about the image – which could be a very complex data structure
So copying to hard drive points back to website with full res image and information
So you can also copy an entire Flickr feed to a desktop folder – and later, once you paste into a folder you can create an ongoing subscription.
Tested on IE, Firefox, Safari…probably bugs in other browsers
Instructions on blog on how to get involved – need to agree on common set of data formats
interlude with Tim
Flickr as a template for good application behavior [it’s kind of like Montessori: "Flickr is a good neighbor. Don’t you want to be a good neighbor too?"]
Posted by egoodman at March 7, 2006 10:19 AM
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