Parakey

Infobox_Software|Parakey
name = Parakey
developer = Blake Ross, Joe Hewitt
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Operating system
website = http://www.parakey.com/

Parakey is a Web-based computer user interface proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt [cite web |url=http://www.blakeross.com/2006/11/11/so-about-that-project|title=So about that project… |accessdate=2007-07-20] [cite web |url=http://gigaom.com/2006/11/01/firefox-kids-new-start-up-parakey|title=Firefox Kid’s New Start Up, Parakey |accessdate=2007-07-20] [cite web |url=http://foolswisdom.com/parakey|title=Parakey? |accessdate=2007-07-20] . 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 [http://www.blogger.com blogger.com] before you can start talking. [cite news | last = Kushner | first = David | date = 2006-11-02 | url = http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696 | title = The Firefox Kid | publisher = IEEE Spectrum]

On 20th July 2007 Parakey was bought by Facebook for an undisclosed sum. The purchase also included the developers' assistance in progressing Facebook. [cite news | url=http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6907895.stm |title=Social site Facebook buys Parakey |date=2007-07-20 | work =BBC News] [cite web |url=http://ads.ak.facebook.com/ads/press/Parakey_Press_Release.pdf| title=Facebook press release|date=2007-07-20]

ee also

* JUL programming language created to make it easier to build tools and applications to expand Parakey's abilities.
* Facebook

ources

External links

* Official Parakey website - http://www.parakey.com/