User:Philikon/Notifications

Product Goals

• Firefox 5?
• should be very easy for web apps to implement (possibly provide a library for popular environments: PHP, Django, Java, etc.)

Technology

• encryption: pub/priv key pair?
• send hash of pub key with every notification to ensure pub key still up to date
• token to enable and disable an app to send notifications
• XMPP? REST API?
• ttl defined by app? global ttl cap? quota?

• see also http://www.notifo.com
• see also http://www.notify.io/
• see also http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
• see also http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-realtimeXMPPtut/index.html

Interns

Initial tasks:

• research: crypto scheme (Alex)
• design client facing API (Alex, Shane)
• design web app facing API (Alex, Shane)

Goals:

• beta quality add-on & server system

Ideas

• privacy: should be able to choose whether to be notified of title vs whole message

• allow clients connected to one account to notify each other (e.g. one of them has just synced and tells the other ones to sync down)