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Google Cloud Messaging for Android (GCM) is a service that helps developers send data from servers to their Android applications on Android devices. This could be a lightweight message telling the Android application that there is new data to be fetched from the server (for instance, a movie uploaded by a friend), or it could be a message containing up to 4kb of payload data (so apps like instant messaging can consume the message directly).

Create a page like normal, then use a JS library to read the fully qualified data from the page into json variables for use in the JS application. Crawl-able, accessible content. http://foolip.org/microdatajs/live/ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#json https://gitorious.org/microdatajs/ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html#microdata-dom-api

Tim Bray: Does the browser have a future?

After listening to the speech, the title of it sounds more like a warning rather than a prediction. Personally, I don't think the browser is going anywhere any time soon. As far as HTML5, I think it's going to be huge. Anxiously awaiting Ubuntu on tablets http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet/app-ecosystem and phones http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/app-ecosystem. Just think, with native HTML5 APIs, any web developer with some minor skill adjustment can develop native phone and tablet apps.