In a break right now. The breakout sessions this afternoon haven’t been as good as the morning sessions–which were excellent.

Ray Ozzie started it off with quotes like:

RSS is DNA of wiring the web
Connecting tissue between web sites
Composite applications
Closer to the user, the more agile in solving the problem
Weaving together a composite application
An application bus
The user weaves together a larger application

And coming to the question: Where is the clipboard of the web?
His answer? WindowsLive Clipbook

It basically allows you to drag, cut, copy and paste information from the web… and it’s smart enough to understand the “data behind the data.” Basically it exposes atomic web data in the most discrete meaningful chunks. So if you “clip” an address on a site you can drag it to your outlook and save the contact info, etc.

My take? It’s AJAX meets RSS.

Then Jeff Han did his magic with the multi-touch screen. Awesome stuff. Key takeaways?
A multi-user collaborative interface.
An intuitive and powerful way to interact with an infinite desktop.
Zooming and manipulating objects on screen is magical.

My take: This will be the new musical instrument, mixing, and production tool.

That’s it for now. More later.

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