The plan, announced at the Intel Developer Forum here, pairs the Web portal's widgetservice with fresh processors that the PC chip giant has crafted especially for televisions.
With the new service, a publisher can embed a widget that shows who you know that works at a particular company, who was recently hired, or who was recently promoted.
Part of the plan to create this better product experience involves opening up SAP to lighter-weight protocols that are more forgiving of distributed applications, including REST and OData, giving customers the freedom to quickly decide an application would be better run as a service, in the cloud, or exposed through a Facebook widget.