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== What is Joey == | == What is Joey? == | ||
When you browse the web, there is a great deal of important content and useful metadata that becomes inaccessible as soon as you walk away from your personal computer. Whether it's the driving directions that you looked upor the latest scores of your favorite sports teams, when you turn off your computer, you no longer have access to that information. | |||
Mobile browsing | Mobile browsing is intended to solve this problem: just use the browser on your phone to access the content you need. However, as we all know, this isn’t the greatest experience; there is too much data to download, the data is hard to reach, the content isn’t formatted for the phone, and so forth. | ||
Project Joey brings | Project Joey brings the web content you need most to your mobile phone by allowing you to syndicate yourself. You can mark content that is important to you and have that content always available while using your mobile phone. | ||
The | The premise is this: you can use Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content, and microsummaries to your phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps all of the content up-to-date. You can then use your phone's browser or the Joey application on your phone to view and manage what you have uploaded. | ||
The goal is to investigate the mobile space | The goal is to investigate the mobile space using a desktop-centric model. Like many 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 | Although we are in the early stages of development, much of Joey is usable today. Feel free to go to http://joey.labs.mozilla.com using Firefox, create an account, and give Joey a try. | ||
== Developer | == Developer information == | ||
Want to help out? Great! You can start by reading the documents below, checking out the code, and looking over our [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/Todo to-do list]. If you're developing, please get on [http://irc.mozilla.org/ IRC] and join #joey. | |||
[http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/labs/joey/trunk/ View the source] | [http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/labs/joey/trunk/ View the source] | ||
Important | == Important documents == | ||
[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/CommunicationProtocol Communication Protocol] | [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/CommunicationProtocol Communication Protocol]<br /> | ||
[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/database Database Design] | [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Joey/database Database Design] | ||
Revision as of 22:54, 16 May 2007
What is Joey?
When you browse the web, there is a great deal of important content and useful metadata that becomes inaccessible as soon as you walk away from your personal computer. Whether it's the driving directions that you looked upor the latest scores of your favorite sports teams, when you turn off your computer, you no longer have access to that information.
Mobile browsing is intended to solve this problem: just use the browser on your phone to access the content you need. However, as we all know, this isn’t the greatest experience; there is too much data to download, the data is hard to reach, the content isn’t formatted for the phone, and so forth.
Project Joey brings the web content you need most to your mobile phone by allowing you to syndicate yourself. You can mark content that is important to you and have that content always available while using your mobile phone.
The premise is this: you can use Firefox to send text clippings, pictures, videos, RSS content, and microsummaries to your phone through the Joey Server. The Joey Server transcodes and keeps all of the content up-to-date. You can then use your phone's browser or the Joey application on your phone to view and manage what you have uploaded.
The goal is to investigate the mobile space using a desktop-centric model. Like many 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 the early stages of development, much of Joey is usable today. Feel free to go to http://joey.labs.mozilla.com using Firefox, create an account, and give Joey a try.
Developer information
Want to help out? Great! You can start by reading the documents below, checking out the code, and looking over our to-do list. If you're developing, please get on IRC and join #joey.