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Mozilla Labs Launches ‘Web Activities’ Project

Posted By Sonya Donaldson On July 12, 2011 @ 2:21 pm In Innovation,Internet and Online Business,Tools on Managing Technology | 1 Comment

How would you like your apps to anticipate your needs? Who wouldn’t, right? Mozilla Labs [1] has launched what looks to be two promising new features. Currently developer focused, Web Activities lets web applications talk to each other; and an as-yet-unnamed feature simplifies app discovery and download.

A peek at Web Activities shows that the app follows the concept of “web intents,” conceived by Google Developer Advocate Paul Kinlan [2], notes TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid. Essentially, Web Activities allows apps to communicate in a “standardized language” without requiring API integration. Mozilla is working with Google’s Chrome team on this project.

The second project will help users discover and download available web apps by displaying a small pop-up notification on the site they are visiting.

Read more at TechCrunch. [3]


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[1] Mozilla Labs: http://mozillalabs.com/

[2] Paul Kinlan: http://paul.kinlan.me/

[3] TechCrunch.: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/08/mozilla-labs-launches-web-activities-experiment-lets-web-apps-talk-to-each-other/

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