Heard a recent Gillmor Gang podcast this morning driving in to work that really caught my interest: Ray Ozzie premiered at the eTech conference a concept he calls Live Clipboard. He has some screencasts of his demo here.
The basic idea is copying structured data from one webpage to another using the same gestures of copy and paste we’re all used to using computers. Script and XML push the data between browser windows.
But Ray’s thinking is even more interesting to read, placing web services, mashups, and users themselves mashing up data between sites in a conceptual framework that tries to make sense of why RSS, web services, and the Web itself are so interesting.
If you have 5 minutes today, read Ray’s blog.
Update: Here’s a webpage demoing the concept.