Myka Developer Program

The next big thing is internet video. As with any new market, no one has all the answers.

That's why we are setting up a developer program.  We are attempting to create an open source consumer device. We believe that will help us go farther and grow faster.

We have designed Myka to encourage 3rd party development Here are some of the key decisions we made:

• We went with Linux.  Although it has been optimized for a set top box environment,  it still offers the tools and extensibility you would expect from Linux.
• Our middleware and communication layers are PHP.  This lets us open the 'guts' up to enhancements by the developer community
  
• The UI is rendered in HTML.  This makes the UI easy to update and throws it open to the creativity of a larger audience.
• There is a rich back end infrastructure.  Channels can be created, new interfacess rolled out.  With the Myka webservices, web sites can offer a range download and program guide options.
• We chose BitTorrent as our P2P file transport system.  This lets us tie in to the huge BitTorrent network.

Here are the key elements of our developer program.

We will be offering steep discounts on hardware.  This hardware will be more accessible physically and have things like telnet and FTP running.

Developers will be able to create accounts on our server and be able to share code and interfaces with other devices in the field.

We will be taking some of the enhancements and rolling them in the commercial version