Semantic Web, Microformats and Live Clipboard

I've had a long interest in semantic web, having a researcher background and all... but I must admit that the pragmatic software architect in me gives me a more comfortable, confident feeling of firm foundation when I look at Microformats...

Something that takes this concept and makes a practical application of it is Live Clipboard. Ray Ozzie has an illuminating blog post on this powerful canonical feature. My gut feeling tells me this is going to be big. In years to come, we're going to look back and see how this simple concept for enabling users to 'wire the web' has dramatically transformed the way we do things...