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Clippy.JS - Add Clippy and friends to any website
- darthpanda 14y agoThank God. I can rest now knowing that we've completed man's greatest feat. Adding this to my site immediately.
- mistercow 14y agoWhat kind of sick person would do this?
- evan_ 14y agoWhat's the difference between Clippy and Siri? Maybe it's just that Siri is out of the way until you call her, but Clippy was always there, commenting on what you were doing, judging you. Maybe Agents would've taken off if you had to press the Windows key or something to summon them.
- breckinloggins 14y agoSiri tries very hard to be a true "agent"; that is, the makers of the technology strived to make Siri something that would perform tasks on your behalf and at your command. Clippy was also intended to be an "Agent", but it failed spectacularly at it because: 1. It tried to help you when you didn't want help, like an annoying intern who won't leave you alone. 2. When you actually wanted it to help you, it was invariably unable to perform the tasks you wanted.
- quaz3l 14y agoI feel so much more at home! In... 1998.
- atyi 14y agoActually it looks better than the real one!
- tazsingh 14y agoIs there a Google Docs plugin for this?
- breckinloggins 14y agoI had a lot more fun playing with this Clippy than I thought I would. I remember HATING Clippy and now I'm questioning why I did. The only conclusion I can make is that it wasn't the actual character and its animations that I hated. They are, if I'm being honest with myself, kind of cute and endearing. The reason I hated Clippy was that it was condescending. "I see you're trying to write a letter. Would you like me to help you with that?" Hindsight is 20/20, but Microsoft should have realized there's no way to phrase that and not insult the intelligence of 90% of your users. Interestingly, I see an analogy here with today's GPS software. No matter how nice they make the voice sound, they never fail to sound condescending when you veer from the pre-calculated route. I love MotionX GPS Drive for the iPhone (other than the fact that it crashes every time I go to another app), but the default voice manages to make me physically angry every time she says "Rerouting". You can almost hear the disappointing frown on her face, as if she's saying "sigh I guess I'm going to have to plot a new course since you're obviously not smart enough to stay on the one I made for you." How hard would it be to make a GPS system that just assumed I might want to get gas or stop for a bite to eat if I took an unplanned exit off an interstate with hundreds of miles to go on my journey? I think Clippy and rude nav systems are different manifestations of the same problem. It's a kind of "uncanny valley of human-computer interaction", although here the revulsion is not triggered by looks or movement but by BEHAVIOR. It's behavior that is almost, but not quite, human. Specifically, I think it's triggered when a computer system takes a tone of intellectual superiority over its user. Because most of us know that our technology is nowhere near the level of intelligence needed to actually be wiser than we are, we feel the same kind of indignation and resentment at the posturing of the system as we do when a small child insists that we don't know what we're talking about while answering their question about why the sky is blue.
- DanBC 14y agoClippy was crippled by MS when they implemented the working research project into the broken version used in Office. (http://robotzeitgeist.com/2009/08 http://robotzeitgeist.com/2009/08) The original implementation was deemed "too cautious" by PHBs, and thus a stupid kludge was added to make clippy appear more often. (http://lesswrong.com/lw/7wt/funny_even_clippy_can_be_blamed_on_the_use_of/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/7wt/funny_even_clippy_can_be_blamed_...) (Interestingly that URL mentions siri before it was released).
- zzzeek 14y agocopyright lawyer invasion in 3...2...
- jamesu 14y agoAlso worth noting there are several patents relating to Microsoft Agent. e.g. http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5682469 http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5682469 http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5880731 http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5880731
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI noticed you're filing a patent suit, would you like help with that? Alternatively, the judge sees the suit and laughs Microsoft out of court.
- WiseWeasel 14y agoI was hoping someone would make this, so I didn't have to. I have a feeling we'll see this turn up a lot sometime around 4/1/13.
- wvenable 14y agoI've wanted this for a long time! I can't wait to code this, as a joke, into one of my sites and have clippy popup on a few key words.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoOoh, Microsoft Agent support in JavaScript! I had a lot of fun playing with the MSAgent API as a kid. Microsoft Agent was pretty cool. Not terribly useful, but there's a huge variety of available agents. It had text-to-speech as well as voice recognition. You could completely programatically control it. Internet Explorer even supported MSAgent in the browser. There were a few sites that used it for various fun animations or greetings cards. Perhaps this could make them usable again. In fact, you could also use it in PowerPoint to add an agent to your presentations. That was fun.
- Bjartr 14y agoMsAgent was awesome, I had a lot of fun in high school with a tool called Vox Proxy[1] which added tons of different higher-level agent controls to powerpoint. [1] http://www.voxproxy.com/ http://www.voxproxy.com/
- mbq 14y agoMe too! I have even drawn and assembled my own character in this "ACE" editor MS has published... Anyway, I think it was a great technology -- it could work perfect just as a async-capable and timeout-dismissable replacement of all those stacked messageboxes and dialogs Office uses, and they made it a fancy help search box :-(
- laconian 14y agoThis makes me super happy. I would like to add some sort of dialogue tree support to it.
- _seininn 14y agoone of the few things I've been searching for is oneko.js. seeing this, I have new found hope. as for clippy, it would be more entertaining if it made suggestions when someone typed something in a text field, or so I would think..
- mdennewitz 14y agothis is great. "print" is especially horrifying.
- GBKS 14y agoThe designer of Clippy gave a speech at ROFLCon a few years ago and gave some insight into how Clippy came about. There's a video of it here http://blip.tv/roflcon/it-looks-like-you-are-giving-a-keynote-3695930 http://blip.tv/roflcon/it-looks-like-you-are-giving-a-keynot...
- deltadj 14y agoJust Wow!
- Rexxar 14y agoInterestingly, there's only one big image per agent : -> http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Clippy/map.png http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Clippy/map.png -> http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Links/map.png http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Links/map.png -> http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Merlin/map.png http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Merlin/map.png -> http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Rover/map.png http://clippy.js.s3.amazonaws.com/Agents/Rover/map.png
- skeletonjelly 14y agoMakes sense I guess. Interesting that it's not a gif you mean? Using sprites means it has nothing else to load when changing animations, saves that jarring load.
- jwatzman 14y agoSpriting is very common. For example, here's how the Facebook logo on the homepage is rendered: https://s-static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yO/r/_2cdInypv2b.png https://s-static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yO/r/_2cdInypv2b.p...
- idleloops 14y agoFascinating. I assumed they were animated gifs.
- pipecork 14y agoSadly disappointed that Bonzi Buddy didn't make a cameo.
- angry-hacker 14y agoWe need bonzi buddy. It was the first thing I installed on my reformatted pc everytime my whole family loved him.
- gouranga 14y agokill it - with fire! It reminds me of my now aged mother shouting at me down the phone "how do I get rid of that little bastard paper clip that pops up and tells me what I should be doing every 2 seconds".
- soulclap 14y agoPerfect project to get some attention/traffic to their actual product. Not hating at all, just saying that it's a good move. Made me check out their project because I wanted to know what else these guys are up to.
- josscrowcroft 14y agoCome next April 1st this is going to be everywhere And it can't come soon enough :o) "I see you're sending an email. Would you like help with that?"
- bergerj 14y agoAre Clippy and co. property of MS or free to be used freely?
- DigitalSea 14y agoNostalgia is a hell of a drug.
- whather 14y agoOh cool, didn't realize the bold, italic, underline, undo and redo buttons work in the header. Well done! ;)
- protolif 14y agoCute. Potential lawsuit. Confusing name choice. [Clippy][1] is already a thing. It's the open source 'copy to clipboard' swf by mojombo. [1]: https://github.com/mojombo/clippy https://github.com/mojombo/clippy
- skeletonjelly 14y agoRight but Microsoft would have been first right?
- egypturnash 14y agoOh my god that cat is so much cuter than any of the 3D-rendered assistants. The "GetArtsy" animation makes me so happy to watch with how it plays with the fourth wall.
- roshangry 14y agoThis is the first time I haven't tried to knock it off my screen immediately.
- mindcrime 14y agoSung to the tune of "Hells Bells" by AC/DC I'm rolling suggestions, pouring pain I'm coming on like a hurricane My avatar's flashing across the sky You're not young but you're gonna die I won't take no users, won't spare no lives Document's putting up a fight I got my clip I'm gonna take you to hell I'm gonna get ya, Clippy get ya Hells bells Hells bells, you got me ringing Hells bells, my temperature's high Hells bells I'll give you black sensations up and down your spine If you're into evil, you're a friend of mine ...
- singular 14y agoI going to burn karma here, but obligatory comedy video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rl5SOuq6-g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rl5SOuq6-g
- ciao 14y agod asdasd
- prehnra 14y agono. No. NO. Just no.