A Glimpse of the Future: New LiveClipboard/S3 demo out

M. David Peterson has posted a great technology demo that combines Live Clipboard and Amazon S3.  Here's a link to the demo.  In my personal opinion, this is a peek about a year into the future of the Web.  Basically, the demo is a list of objects (just contacts and calendar events right now) that is persisted to Amazon S3 for storage.  Think a blogroll, but not just for blogs.  It actually contains data about different types of objects, and you can cut and paste those objects around in the list and back and forth from Microsoft's demo site.

Someday, a list will be a list of meaningful data, and sharing a list won't just be sharing links to the objects but the objects themselves.  This is powerful stuff.

Imagine in a few years when this technology proliferates--the possibilities are just endless.  You'll be able to copy meaningful data out of your applications (Web-based AND fat client) and use it in all of your other applications.  Instead of those vCal emails that get sent out by travel sites, all you'll have to do is copy the event and paste it into Outlook.  You'll be able to copy a contact from Outlook and paste it into your Webmail client.  Your personal RSS feed won't contain just your blog posts, but also your contacts, events you attend, reviews you post, and just about everything else you're involved with.

I can't wait, the Internet is going to be SO much easier to use once the dust settles, standards are formalized, and this technology proliferates.