Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
Summary: Amazon's Silk 'cloud-accelerated' web browser is a game changer.
Lots of information coming out of Amazon.s Kindle press event today. There's a new $79 Kindle, a WiFi Kindle Touch for $99, a 3G Kindle Touch for $149 and the new Kindle Fire tablet for $199.
But out of all this mouthwatering hardware, it's a software innovation that interests me the most - it's Amazon Silk?
What is Amazon Silk? Put simply, Amazon Silk is a mobile web browser that's powered by Amazon's colossal EC2 web services platform. According to Amazon, 'Silk isn't just another browser.'
All of the browser subsystems are present on your Kindle Fire as well as on the AWS cloud computing platform. Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely. In short, Amazon Silk extends the boundaries of the browser, coupling the capabilities and interactivity of your local device with the massive computing power, memory, and network connectivity of our cloud.
So, it's a browser powered by cloud computing.
Amazon Silk is available exclusively for Kindle Fire users.
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RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
Actually, it's much worse than what Google does with their searches. All of your browsing will be done with their cloud. If you do banking, it's on their cloud. If you pay bills, it's on their cloud.
If you do anything at all, and I mean anything, it's on their cloud.
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
You raise interesting points. Like AKH stated in his return comment to Rama.Net, I would wish to see that privacy policy for myself as well.
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
But I don't do my bank transactions through Facebook or Microsoft. My request from browser goes to bank directly instead of making a call to browser maker data centers.
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
All your search are belong to us ;-)
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
Re: Privacy
Re: Privacy - the next level
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
"Recently, online properties like Hulu, MSN and Flixster have been caught using a tougher version of the common cookie. These ???supercookies??? (aka ???Flash cookies??? and ???zombie cookies???) serve the same purpose as regular cookies by tracking user preferences and browsing histories. Unlike their popular cousins, however, this breed is difficult to detect and subsequently remove. These cookies secretly collect user data beyond the limitations of common industry practice, and thus raise serious privacy concerns.
Supercookies are similar to the standard browser cookies most folks are familiar with, but are stored in different locations on a user???s machine, for example, in a file used by a plug-in (Flash is the most common). This makes them harder to find and delete, especially since a browser???s built-in cookie detection process won???t remove them either. Furthermore, some supercookies have additional capabilities, like regenerating regular cookies to prevent their removal by the user.
To make matters worse, removing master supercookies is much more difficult. It requires the user to dig through the file system and delete them manually, an inconvenient task even for advanced users. The novice, on the other hand, likely won???t even realize supercookies exist, let alone be able to find them."
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
It is not cookie. "Each time you load a web page, Silk makes a dynamic decision about which of these subsystems will run locally and which will execute remotely. In short, Amazon Silk extends the boundaries of the browser, coupling the capabilities and interactivity of your local device with the massive computing power, memory, and network connectivity of our cloud."
In other words, Amazon will read our request and parse it and decide whether to run that local or in the cloud. That means if my request is to a bank, amazon parses my request, reads my user id and password and decide. Now tell me does, Google, Microsoft, MSN, Hulu do the same, ie reading my user credentials and parse them. They just do tracking but this is more than tracking.
RE: Amazon Silk - The biggest Kindle innovation is not hardware, it's software
This ought to be disabled by default and opt in.