WWDC 2007 - WebClip
by bear
k, I promise this will be the last WWDC related post… honest! The technology behind WebClip looks very snazzy - heck you just pick the div or iframe your interested in and it places that into a HTML widget framework and, to paraphrase the Steve, boom!
Nice except for two things: the anti-deep linkers will be going ape-shit over this and kiss any ad related revenue you may have been getting goodbye.
Why? Well, the widget will be scanning for updates often and that could be construed by the ad people as being bot-driven page impressions or worse. And many sites may just block WebClip if they find a way of tagging it. I really hope not - this kind of consumer driven data use is exactly the kind of thing a lot of us have been dreaming of for years.