Jon Udell: How do you design a remixable Web application?

John Udell asks How do you design a remixable Web application?

It’s remarkable that these effects are achievable with no explicit support from the origin sites. But what if those sites did want to offer explicit support? What would that look like?

Microformats?

What’s unclear, at least to me, is whether — or to what degree — the content and code will be augmented by external descriptions that can be used by automated tools, and can insulate derivative works from change. Could a lightweight schema for the content, and a lightweight service description for the code, make these remixes more resilient without imposing too much overhead? It’s a great experiment for someone to try.

I don’t think its that unclear. It’s being done.

Via O’Reilly Radar

One Response to “Jon Udell: How do you design a remixable Web application?”

  1. The Community Engine Blog Says:

    Microformats and the remixable web

    To answer Jon Udell and others, microformats enable the remixable web.