Truemors
Wow - Facebook just bought Parakey ! I love Parakey!!
No I don't. I haven't a clue what it is about. If you go to the site, you get an official-looking notice that proclaims: "Give your computer the bird."
There's a box to submit your email address, but other than that, nada. No explanation, bupkis.
So what does Facebook know?
Parakey is a Web-based computer user interface proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt [1][2][3]. Ross describes it as "a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do." The idea behind it is to make image, video, and writing transfer to the web easier. He explains that the current problem with transferring data to the web is that in order to move an image onto the web you first have to transfer pictures from your digital camera, then upload them to a place like Flickr. Or, if you want to rant, you launch a blog on blogger.com before you can start talking.
(Let me know if you know something sinister (or interesting) about Parakey)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Privately held social networking site Facebook Inc. said on Thursday it has acquired Internet startup Parakey, run by the co-founders of Web browser Mozilla Firefox, for an undisclosed sum.Parakey was described as a "platform that bridges the gap between information on the Web and the desktop."
As a result of the transaction, Mozilla Firefox founders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt will help develop the Facebook and the company's Web site.
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