Re: The Physical Web

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, 2015-04-07 15:14 +1000:
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/B64BB016-B70E-4AFA-B6C3-E55EEE3EADFE@mnot.net>
> 
> Andrew Betts showed this to me when he was in town a few weeks ago:
>   https://github.com/google/physical-web
>   http://google.github.io/uribeacon/
> 
> Looks interesting, and hitting about the right point; more usable than (for example) QR codes, if it’s done right.
> 
> Domenic / Alex, do you know the folks inside G doing this? Would be interesting to think/talk about some of the problems they identify in the Technical Overview.
> 
> In particular, I wonder if they should be using link relations to cut down on their metadata issue.
> 
> Tangentially - people in the IETF have been talking about putting URLs into DNS...

Scott Jensen could give some insight into that Technical Overview doc.

  https://mobile.twitter.com/scottjenson

He might even be able to send over some actual Physical Web Bluetooth LE
beacons for TAG members to take a look at and try out at the f2f. Or since
I’ll be at the f2f, I have few myself that I could bring along.

  —Mike

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