Re: FYI - Physical Web

Hi all,

just to clarify: anybody could build a "browser" for the proposed UriBeacon format.

Relying on URIs makes the approach more generic, distributed and open than iBeacon (where apps "resolve" IDs).

But, as Rob says, when it comes to prioritise the "search" result list of URIs in your proximity, the browser with most context info available probably wins.

Kind regards,
Thomas

> On 27 Nov 2014, at 11:56, Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I had a talk on that with 
> Charalampos Doukas
> Thomas Amberg
> https://twitter.com/tamberg

> https://twitter.com/BuildingIoT
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> on this latest Google initiative: trailing on urls for objects
> 
> https://github.com/google/physical-web/blob/master/documentation/technical_overview.md

> 
> and we realized that as you assign your device through the (bluetooth) beacon you are effectively adding these devices to the Google web. So if you go out to a friend you will see their devices. But in what order? Who prioritizes the devices, according to which criteria? Google ads! :)- the relevant sorting. Maybe you have to pay for being shown all devices on the discovery list?
> 
> So dangerous and yet so alluring to developers, just assign urls to objects.
> 
> The idea itself is good.
> 
> Thomas says: you as a user will help them catalogue the devices — location
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> But what if the list goes to an open and public initiative? It should not feed into Google of course.
> 
> Then you could walk around and feed your local internet of neighborhoods,
> 
> Greetings, Rob
> 
> Rob van Kranenburg 罗万魁
> Founder of Council;  theinternetofthings.eu
> Community Manager; sociotal.eu
> Chair of Activity Chain 8 Societal of the IERC; www.internet-of-things-research.eu
> 
> 
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>> Op 27-nov.-2014, om 02:15 heeft 전종홍 <hollobit@etri.re.kr> het volgende geschreven:
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>> Hi All, 
>>  
>> FYI - Google Reveals ‘The Physical Web,’ A Project To Make Internet Of Things Interaction App-Less.
>>  
>> How about to consider it in the scope of WoT IG.
>>  
>> http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/02/google-the-physical-web/

>> https://google.github.io/physical-web/

>>  
>> Best Regards,
>>  
>> --- Jonathan Jeon 
>

Received on Thursday, 27 November 2014 17:36:28 UTC