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More on Qwer
Sunday, Jun 24, 2001
While the technical production of Qwer is done, there's still a lot of work to be done on the user-experience end of things. Basically I need to make it something that has an obvious purpose to someone who stumbles upon it. I've got plans, and they'll make things a lot clearer.

For the time being, Qwer is an 'internet clipboard' that you can use to easily pass urls or other text-based info from one computer to another.

Say you stumble across a url for a file you need to download on your other computer. Rather than copy the url by hand or email it to yourself (assuming you have email on both your compuers) you can just go to qwer.org/something and paste the url in, then go to qwer.org/something on the other computer to pick it up.

This is also handy when you're on the phone and you want to share a url with someone you're talking to. If it's a deep link (like an amazon page, or anything else with a messy url) you can just put the url into qwer.org/yourname (or anything else) and tell your friend to go there to pick it up. The site is called qwer.org because 'qwer' are the four first keys on the (qwerty) keyboard, and it's one of the easiest and fastest urls that's still out there.

There are other possibilities for uses and features that I'm sure will emerge. One thing is that it's entirely not registration or cookie based: There is no security, other than through obscurity (It's unlikely that you'd stumble across qwer.org/4gnnfn45y5y954 accidentally). I may introduce additional features, like the ability to search qwerbits, but if I do, I'll also make a checkbox so people can exclude their qwerbit.

The most interesting thing I think is to find out what uses people make on their own. One possibility is the communal qwerStory... More ideas? Share with me, or better yet, share with everyone!

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