Screencast: unAPI at the Gates of the Dawn of Social Clipboards
Here's a rambling, 18 minute screencast of me firing data through a social clipboarding service in tracer bullet mode. A quick summary of web clipboards leads into a demo of using unAPI to copy image data from flickr and paste it through unalog using the POST and GET functions of the atom publishing protocol and a json-wrapped data model based loosely on mpeg21 did.
I've never done a screencast before, so go easy.
Oh!, and I forgot one important thing. I left off showing that the pasted-in flickr data is available in unalog listed just like any other pasted-in link, with its tags and so forth. Here's a screenshot just to prove it:
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Elliot Metsger (not verified) on March 10th 2006
Hi dchud!
I lurk on the gcs-pcs list. I liked the screencast - it really "brings it home".
Just one comment on the screencast - The volume seemed low - I turned my speakers all the way up but I still had to have the tv off/study door closed to hear it. Perhaps the gain on the microphone could be increased?
Pretty neat!
dchud on March 12th 2006
You're right, it does sound way low on youtube... it didn't when I tested it before uploaded, unfortunately, so I don't know what happened.
I *did* accidently record it at a lower audio bitrate than I'd intended, so the audio quality is worse than it should be, and maybe this affected the volume, but it certainly made it sound noisier.
Oh well... it'll be better next time!
Thanks for the feedback!
Elliot Metsger (not verified) on March 11th 2006
Hi Dchud.
I'm officially excited. This is huge. E.g. in the Sakai and uPortal space.
An art history instuctor is creating their course site in sakai. They want images from their local MDID installation in their Sakai worksite. Copy & paste!
An instructor is creating a reading list. They have identifiers for each item on the list. Copy & paste!
So to that end I'm working on Java unapi rev 1 impl, and i'm lurking on the list so I'll update it to rev 2 since probably it (rev 2) will be out before my impl. I'll start small, like with our library catalog and move from there.
Good stuff. Oh, and yes, I see how similar this is to Open URL :) It will be interesting to see where the implementation takes me.
dchud on March 12th 2006
That's exactly the kind of use case that led us to start working on this stuff. If we'd thought of the clipboard metaphor before this article maybe we could have brought more people on board sooner. Fortunately Bill Burcham led us to that metaphor before we heard it from MS. :)
Please do speak up on-list when you have your implementation ready!
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