A great post and reinforces for me both the potential and the challenges that I wrote about in my post.
“Google’s documentation is so far geared towards developers who want to stream media from their sites or apps, but because the device uses a stock Chrome browser and allows you to load any HTML page (with a few restrictions), there’s no reason you couldn’t build any kind of interactive TV experience–say, a slideshow for a news article–into a desktop web page. That’s something that Apple’s AirPlay API, which allows developers to tag embedded media on their site for AirPlay on mobile Safari, can’t do.” http://buff.ly/1bSbBbU Googles Chromecast is the first inexpensive smart TV device that uses web technologies to run applications on the receiving end. That means millions…