[uf-discuss] copy-and-paste metadata prior art?

[Ian McKellar]

On 9/30/06, Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/30/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > BlogAssist (http://www.dejal.com/blogassist/) does something
> > similar... and in fact, I had designed Flock's quotation system to
> > work this way, using the <blockquote cite=""> tag/attribute combo to
> > retain the original data's source.
>
> Worth noting the patent application was filed in March of 2005. A lot
> of stuff I've seen publicly comes after that.

I'm pretty sure our metadata aware clipboard (in flock) was more like June 2005.

Ian

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