YAY!
Originally developed by Google’s Paul Kinlan, Web Intents are a kind of meta-website API that would allows sites to easily pass data between each other — for example, to edit a photograph or share a URL with friends.
via WebKit Offers Early Preview of \’Web Intents\’ | Webmonkey | Wired.com.
I assumed this was already happening, but I guess they are trying to get public approval doe non-stop monitoring.
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance.
via FBI: We need wiretap-ready Web sites – now | Security & Privacy – CNET News.
ARRIS Group, Inc. has released their Moxi 2.0 DVR software and it’s got a WebKit build powering its interface. With browsers showing up in hardware appliances we’re fast-approaching the day when the term “web developer” may become an anachronism, supplanted as the web stack becomes the world’s unified user interface standard.
Moxi software release 2.0 contains an advanced HTML5 WebKit-based browser as well as support for MSO customizable application storefronts and downloadable applications.
The DVR software sounds pretty cool. It is designed to participate in a REST architecture on your LAN, interfacing with the iPad remote control app via API over HTTP.
The Moxi Web Services API provides a full featured and RESTful command and control-interface enabling authorized partners to implement functions…
via Arris reveals Moxi DVR release 2.0 with web browser, apps and iPad remote – Engadget.
I would have never seen this coming. I’d previously believed Facebook would not be a good long-term hold, but I had no idea the IPO could come unraveled to such a degree. It’s quite a confidence-shaker, don’t you think?
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has gone from hero to zero as the stockmarket flotation of the decade flounders amid lawsuits and accusations of greed, hype and deception.
via Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg sees stock tumble amid IPO lawsuits | Technology | The Guardian.
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