Swell drag and drop, desktop to browser

This friday video bonus was from Swell drag and drop, I didn’t really explained much about this API, however what they are doing is very interesting, a drag and drop from desktop directly to browsers is the Holy Grail of the drag and drop. That said, they only have a video to show for now, but I am curious to see how this will turn out.

I kind of “dream” of interpreting an Excel file and create animated charts on the fly that you can share directly with your friends.

What they are trying to do is really hard, I can’t imagine how they are doing it. There is certainly some sort of web services involved in this.

There is a good round up article on ajaxian.