Adaptive Path Blog

A foundational concept within Adaptive Path’s Aurora browser vision is that your web is always available. This idea is visualized in the video when the New York Times’ article Jill is reading on her desktop computer later appears on her mobile device.

What do we mean by your web? With advances in computational power and limitless storage, we envision a future where everything you do online is recorded and available via any device. Your web includes your entire web history and all of your saved objects, be they people, data, sites, etc. All of this information is saved to the “cloud” where it is now available to any other computer connected to the Internet.

Combining months, years, or even decades of your personal history with the context of a device opens the possibility for real insights that help a user make the most of their surroundings. Take for example the personal route that MapQuest recommends based on the users’ interest in bike shops and a book title.

Simply authenticating with a new device provides users with instant access to the last state of their browser. The user interface will appropriately render your web to fit the device, everything from tiny screen on a watch to a wall-sized touch-screen. A critical concept is that while most users will have personal devices on which they interface with the browser, your web can be accessed via any device. Walk up to a public computer in an airport or a library, authenticate yourself, and the browser immediately has access to a user’s lifetime of web browsing. This would also work on other people’s devices, such as a friend’s mobile or television.

We envision that the vast amount of personal information available to the browser will create powerful trend and recommendation engines that applications can utilize for future needs. For example, a decision that a user made months ago on a home computer can instantly inform a travel planning web app accessed on a mobile device used at an international airport.

It’s your web and it’s always up-to-date and always available, wherever you are.

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