December 2008 Archives

Howdy folks,

We're extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserPlus SDK. This first SDK and the accompanying documentation gives you all the tools you'll need to start extending the web using BrowserPlus. Getting started is easy, you can hop over to our tutorial and write your first service in about 15 minutes.

In addition to the SDK, we've pushed a new platform version, 2.1.14, that fixes several bugs reported by all of you. We deeply appreciate your continued contributions and hope with the SDK and our ongoing process of open sourcing BrowserPlus we'll empower you to contribute even more to the project.

And... Welcome the new Zipper service to our collection! A big problem with some web apps today is being able to efficiently attach all file types. Zipper plays nicely with Uploader and lets you compress files or folders on the client before uploading them. This service should be considered alpha, and we look forward to your feedback and ideas on how to make this more useful. We've got lots of ideas of which way to take this service (lzma being first and foremost), but would love to hear your thoughts.

Finally, as you start digging deep into the SDK we'll expect you'll have lots of thoughts and feedback. For that reason we'll be hanging out on github and on IRC (#browserplus at irc.freenode.net). You can check out some of the early open source projects dedicated to exploring new browserplus services on github right now

You probably have some questions, and we've done our best to preempt you over in our FAQ.

Thanks for reading and participating. We deeply believe that the continued success of this project is dependent all of you. Your feedback, talents, and creativity.

much love, The BrowserPlus Team

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On the first tuesday of the month in Boulder, Colorado there's an hour long meeting of technologists with an interesting format: 5 companies talk about new technology given 5 minutes each to present with 5 minutes for questions. For this meetup Robert Reich, the organizer, invited us to talk about BrowserPlus. All in all this was a great time and we blogged about the experience and some of the companies that were showcased on the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog. Included in that blog is a video of the presentation we gave, which serves as a nice "BrowserPlus in 5 minutes".

till the next, lloyd

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Happy monday,

Udayakumar Rayala on our forums has crafted a greasemonkey script that will post desktop notifications when new results are available from search.twitter.com. BrowserPlus+greasemonkey (+Udayakumar's creativity) makes search.twitter.com more usable.

I personally love this hack as I'm a huge user of search.twitter.com, I leave a tab or two open all day long monitoring some topics I care about, but I'm not particularly interested in installing native applications to get more instant updates on the twitter-o-sphere. So this hack has made my life better. Thanks Udayakumar!

till the next, lloyd

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