Parakey is a Web

World Wide Web

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-based computer user interface proposed by Firefox contributors Blake Ross

Blake Ross

Blake Aaron Ross is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project with Dave Hyatt, as well as the Spread Firefox project with Asa Dotzler while working as a contractor at the Mozilla Foundation...

 and Joe Hewitt

Joe Hewitt (programmer)

Joe Hewitt is a software programmer who is best known for his work on the Firefox web browser and related software development tools like Firebug and DOM Inspector....

. Ross describes it as "a Web operating system

Web operating system

In metacomputing, WebOS and Web operating system are terms that describe network services for Internet scale distributed computing, as in the WebOS Project at UC Berkeley, and the WOS Project...

 that can do everything an OS

Operating system

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 can do." The idea behind it is to make image

Image

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, video

Video

Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

, and writing

Writing

Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.Writing most likely...

 transfer to the web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

 easier. He explains that the current problem with transferring data to the web

World Wide Web

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 is that in order to move an image

Image

An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...

 onto the web

World Wide Web

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 you first have to transfer pictures from your digital camera, then upload them to a place like Flickr. Or, if you want to rant, you launch a blog

Blog

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 on blogger.com before you can start talking.

On 20 July 2007 Parakey was bought by Facebook

Facebook

Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...

for an undisclosed sum. The purchase also included the developers' assistance in progressing Facebook.