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== What is Joey == | == What is Joey == | ||
While you browse the web, there is a ton of important content and useful metadata that is locked away as soon as you walk away from your desktop or laptop. It might be the driving directions that you looked up, or it might be the current sport scores of your favorite team. In either case, when you turn off your computer, this data is no longer accessible when on the go. | |||
Mobile browsing does seam to solve this problem – just use the browser on your phone to access the content you were just looking at. However, as we all know, this experience isn’t the greatest – there is too much data to download, the data is hard to get to, the content isn’t formatted for the phone, etc. | |||
Project Joey brings your web content to the mobile phone by allowing you to syndicate yourself. You can mark content that is important to you and have that content always be available via your mobile phone. | |||
The basic idea is that from Firefox you can send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS, microsummaries to your phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps up-to-date all of the content. From your phone’s browser or the Joey phone app, you can view and manage what you have uploaded. | |||
The goal is to investigate the mobile space from a desktop centric model. Like other Mozilla projects, there are no plans to productize Joey. We will work with the community to build a compelling and usable tool that people will enjoy using. | |||
Although we are in early stages of development, much of Joey is usable today. Feel free to go to http://joey.labs.mozilla.com with Firefox, create an account, and start using Joey today. | |||
== Developer Info == | == Developer Info == | ||
Revision as of 22:32, 16 May 2007
What is Joey
While you browse the web, there is a ton of important content and useful metadata that is locked away as soon as you walk away from your desktop or laptop. It might be the driving directions that you looked up, or it might be the current sport scores of your favorite team. In either case, when you turn off your computer, this data is no longer accessible when on the go.
Mobile browsing does seam to solve this problem – just use the browser on your phone to access the content you were just looking at. However, as we all know, this experience isn’t the greatest – there is too much data to download, the data is hard to get to, the content isn’t formatted for the phone, etc.
Project Joey brings your web content to the mobile phone by allowing you to syndicate yourself. You can mark content that is important to you and have that content always be available via your mobile phone.
The basic idea is that from Firefox you can send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS, microsummaries to your phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps up-to-date all of the content. From your phone’s browser or the Joey phone app, you can view and manage what you have uploaded.
The goal is to investigate the mobile space from a desktop centric model. Like other Mozilla projects, there are no plans to productize Joey. We will work with the community to build a compelling and usable tool that people will enjoy using.
Although we are in early stages of development, much of Joey is usable today. Feel free to go to http://joey.labs.mozilla.com with Firefox, create an account, and start using Joey today.
Developer Info
Wanna help out? Great! You can start by reading the documents below, checking out the code and looking over our todo list. If you're developing, please get on IRC and join #joey.
Firefox Addon
Mozilla Server
Mobile Clients
- Source -- Not released just yet as we are working out the licensing terms. stay tuned.
- Description
All source code is available online.