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Ray Ozzie's "Few Simple Ideas"
Ray Ozzie is showing a demo of 'Live Clipboard' here at ETech. It's a way to copy structured (for instance, microformatted) data from a web page and paste it to another web service or desktop app while keeping the structure intact.
Some things this enables him to show:- Copying an event from Eventful to your desktop calendar so it automagically gets placed in the proper date & time
- Copying your profile from MSN Spaces to Facebook, with the custom field for 'location' getting added to the profile
- Copying billing & shipping address information from the clipboard to an e-commerce site
This is going to significantly improve the Web-to-desktop app user experience. Here are screencasts of the demo. The work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike.
Microsoft got itself one hell of a CTO when it acquired Ozzie's Groove Networks last year.
March 7, 2006
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excellent news! I'm using the Nokia 770 as a key example in a new paper about how companies can design artifacts that encourage "critical material practices" (e.g. "crafting" practices of tinkering, reuse, and redesign,) and thus create longer product lifecycles and less "disposable culture" and early obsolesence. Hope to talk to you and Ulla about it sometime.
Posted by: Matt Ratto | 22 Mar 2006 04:25:52
sorry - last entry should be under "Joined Nokia". I must have clickity-clicked too fast...
Posted by: Matt Ratto | 22 Mar 2006 04:30:17
Great to hear about the paper. Could you email me a copy?
Posted by: Jyri | 22 Mar 2006 11:55:52
abso - a drafty version by next week. Currently I'm stuck in a kind of frankfurt school/Hannah Arendt work/labor morass. But I'll bang through it soon.
Posted by: Matt Ratto | 23 Mar 2006 07:20:16
