Clipboarding At EventfulOct26

Brooks Jordan 0 comments

If you want to try out Live Clipboard, which I posted about the other day, go to Eventful and do a search on whatever.

On the page for the event you choose in Eventful, you'll see an orange scissors icon in the sidebar on your right: "LiveClipboard." Click that icon, then right click and choose copy. Nothing happens. No, not until you go to your blog's window for posting (or whatever text window you want) and do a right click and select paste.

And out pops:

The Divine ComedyWednesday, November 8, 2006, at Savoy, Cork, Ireland

Or at least that's how it looks in it's viewable form. The actual code looks more like, well, code.

You just used Live Clipboard to take event data from one Web app, and in the form of a microformat, I might add, and copied it to your Web app (blog post or whatever you chose). The usefulness of this is now other computers can read this calendar entry that you pasted because it's not just text, it is a microformat, specifically the hcalendar format. So you can get synched up in a myriad of ways when computers parse your post and seen that you have the hcalendar format and what it says.

The point? The point is (a) it couldn't be easier to do (b) sharing information between apps is what it's all about and (c) when these micro chunks of information can fully utilize RSS to communicate back and forth, one less thing holds us back from collaborating with other people.

But anyway, try it out by going to Eventful. That's the easiest way to get a feel for its significance.