Clipboard for the Web

The announcement by Ray Ozzie of some work that they have been doing on the creation of a Clipboard concept for the web has got a lot of people talking today.

Sometimes someone says something simple, profound and obvious. We all understand the clipboard concept, we all understand that we can’t do this on the web but have got so used to that fact that we have missed the point that it could be possible.

The first screen-cast was enough for me. I was left thinking two things, firstly I was thinking “that’s brilliant”, secondly I was thinking “why can’t I do that today”.

The best ideas are often the obvious ones. The funny thing is that I do something similar to this to create this blog, but I do it manually without the help of the technology. When I post a picture into this blog I go to a page in flickr which has all of the code (html) I need to paste the picture into BlogJet and hence upload it to Typepad. This demo is doing something incredibly similar to that, but with a lot more style. All we need now are a set of developers to make it work and for that to happen they need to be told that we expect it to happen.

Other links:

Dave Winer, eWeek, Technorati, CNET News.com, Scoble, any many, many more.