Real World Live Clipboard
Written on October 3, 2006 by Conor O'Neill
Why are Microsoft and Eventful not shouting this from the rooftops?
You can now find an event in Eventful (e.g. this Divine Comedy one in Cork), right-click the Live Clipboard Icon, click copy, go to Windows Live Writer and do paste. Not only do you now have all that event information in your blog post, it is fully marked-up as a hCalendar item and you can link to the original source.
Well done to all involved in this. Once it is two-way (copying my event blog entries to Eventful in two clicks), I’ll never use another blog tool again. Now all we need is is for Outlook 2007 and LinkedIn to support this functionality with hCard.
UPDATE: Eventful now have two blog posts on it. The first one is the formal press release and the second is a step-by-step guide to using the plug-in.
Technorati tags: Windows Live Writer, microformats, hCalendar, Live Clipboard, Eventful, LinkedIn, Outlook 2007
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I can see from the reader you’re really digging this in realtime
I dont use Live Writer (did download, never installed) but think I might give it a second chance.
Also going to have to learn about microformats.
One question - ‘right-click the Live Clipboard Icon’ are you using IE?
I did the test in IE7 but any previous tests I did with Live Clipboard worked in FF too. I’ll check now.
Yup, works in Firefox too. One thing I noticed in the past is that you have to be very accurate with mouse placement for the javascript to work so that it includes “copy, cut and paste” in the right-click menu.
Hmmm, I can’t seem to get this working with either IE7 or FF. I’m after installing a fresh new version of Live Writer and successfully posted to my blog.
So, I right click copy on the Scissors but when I go ‘Paste’ in Live Writer nothing happens. And I’m using the Divine Comedy example you refer to Conor. Any ideas?
Hmm, did you install the Event plug-in? I think it enables that functionality. I didn’t make that clear at all.
No, you made it clear in the previous post Conor but I was too dopey at that time last night to cop it!
I’ve now installed the plug-in and successfully used Live Clipboard for the first time ever. When you see it in action you realize what a monumental step forward this is for the web
Such a simple idea that has enormous potential and they are making it open to everyone.
The ability to move structured data from site to site or site to desktop application using a clipboard model that every computer user understands really could have profound implications, particularly in the area of moving and controlling “my data”.
Hi Conor,
Round-trip should already work!
I’ve been using Pingerati already and I hadn’t realised Eventful were doing that with my event entries. I yearned for this back in February on my personal blog. Awesome!