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# Enhancing data interoperability
- URL: https://werd.io/enhancing-data-interoperability/
- Published: 2006-03-08T12:57:19.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:23.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

It's very rare that I'll find myself endorsing a Microsoft technology, but [this may be genius](http://spaces.msn.com/rayozzie/blog/cns!FB3017FBB9B2E142!285.entry):

> And what of the promise beyond weblogs for feed-based publish and subscribe? Today’s user experience is certainly constraining what might be.  
>  
> After thinking about this for a while … I had an idea .  
>  
> The idea was based on using a simple and consistent user model to wire-the-web that would assist individuals in creating their own mesh of interconnections - both web-to-web and web-to-PC.  
>  
> Simply stated, I’d like to **extend the clipboard user model to the web**.

Now, the jury's still out on whether this will work or not - I think it depends on whether this becomes an open standard or whether there's a certain amount of Microsoft platform buy-in. However, from this vantage point it's looking good; borrowing from open source principles, there's a mailing list you can join (see the bottom of the post) to influence development. The whole thing seems like a genuine effort to improve usage, and I'd love to get behind it. With both eyes open.