’Live Clipboard’ - a Ray Ozzie special
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I was reading an article on a new project (yes announced a month ago) that Ray and Microsoft threw together. This comes with the announcements of all the Live! product announcements. Live Clipboard uses a simple metaphor, the Windows Clipboard, to let users copy and paste live information - for example, another user's calendar - from one site to another without losing the link to its data source. The clipboard uses Real Simple Syndication (RSS) and the Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) to handle data feeds.
I love the idea of moving and copying web data objects without losing where it came from. But does this allow content to be shown as someone else's with no proper credit? Can you simply use these to glue things together? They state they have enough interest that a draft specification has been tossed together too. So this moves beyond taking web text like I do for the posting here and referencing it, it moves into meshing that data with my own and making it part of my entry. While maintaining the link and integrity of the original posting.
Myself not being a developer, I read this with a different twist. Some read it as a way to move data easier and bring systems together, I see it as a way for someone to grab your stuff, mark it up some and make it their own while still pointing to you and your resources serving it up. I might have to reword that. Here is Ray's comments from his own blog entry: Where's the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from one website to another?
Where's the user model that would enable a user to copy and paste structured information from a website to an application running on a PC or another kind of device, or vice-versa?
And finally, where's the user model that would enable a user to 'wire the web', by enabling publish-and-subscribe scenarios web-to-web, or web-to-PC?
On Ray's blog he states there is good threads and feedback, but you still can't comment back on his directly, bummer.
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On Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 by Chris Miller
