Re: [gimmie-list] websites-as-apps?

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 5/15/06, Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com> wrote:
> Ya, this is the grand plan behind Gimmie, basically...
>
> In the near-term future Gmail, Basecamp, Wikipedia, etc will show up in
> Gimmie's Applications when you browse to them.  This makes them easier
> to switch to in the midst of other tasks, and allows for bookmarking.
> Presenting an icon you can manipulate grants these webapps the ability
> to be "installed" if you use them a lot, using DND or copy/paste, or
> some other mechanism.  And just browsing to their URLs gets an entry
> added to recently used, so you can find them again later.
>
> In the long term some standardized phishing-proof solution will have to
> be developed to allow URL content to describe themselves as part of an
> application, and point to it's metadata.
>
> Also, Gimmie will extend a bit beyond just applications, into documents
> and people, in that opened Friendster homepages or Facebook profiles
> will be represented as People objects that you can perform similar
> actions upon.

Cool. Do you anticipate this is something some excited ephy people
could help out with? :)

Luis