Economisch weerbericht (138): Gadgets als service voor stadsguerilla’s

The “App Model” and the Web: Mozilla’s mission is to bring openness, interoperability and user sovereignty to Internet life.  We should do this in the apps world.   We should embrace some aspects of the current app model as a complement to the browser model.   We should also provide an alternative to aspects of the current app model that aren’t so open to interoperability and user sovereignty.

HearHear!!! > http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2011/08/09/the-app-model-and-the-web/

internet-repressie in het vrije westen > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576502214236127064.html

BeTheMedia > http://bethemedia.org.uk/

A shift toward software that runs largely on the Web instead of on the device itself, boot 2 Gecko is similar to Google's browser-based Chrome OS, an operating system built into the browser. But the Mozilla effort could have a broader impact, by changing the way all Web browsers function, not just Mozilla's.

Mozilla engineers want to significantly expand the things browsers can do. They want the browser to access the contacts list and other data on a device, and connect to the camera and other hardware. The final step will be to replace the phone's operating system itself. The effort will start, naturally enough, with Firefox (Gecko is the name of the rendering engine at the heart of the Firefox browser).

If it succeeds, the Boot 2 Gecko project will move many of the functions now carried out by mobile operating systems—Android, Apple's iOS, WebOS, MeeGo, and others—into the browser itself.

Source: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38308/

HTML5 & the Death of the App Store > http://wallblog.co.uk/2011/08/18/html5-and-the-death-of-the-app-store/

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