Building the Physical Web together

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Claim: broadcast plain URLs from devices so phones discover web pages without apps. Implementation uses Bluetooth Low Energy advertising packets and Raspberry Pi or cheap beacons, with iOS/Android prototype apps and GitHub-open source. Demo rips a $250 vending machine, runs Node and websockets, and achieves ~100 ms tap‑to‑drop latency. Notes: 974 vending‑machine vendors argues apps don’t scale; ~3,000 GitHub followers shows uptake; full device JavaScript direct‑connect is a year away.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 11:38The Web needs a discovery service
3. 12:47The Physical web
4. 20:11What about trading

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