I think earbitscom is talking about the protected APIs in Chrome. There are APIs that regular web sites get and there are APIs that extensions/packaged apps ge

I think earbitscom is talking about the protected APIs in Chrome. There are APIs that regular web sites get and there are APIs that extensions/packaged apps get (like local file storage). Chrome Web Store is still a weird concept for me, but especially so when most of the 'apps' are, as you mention, fancy bookmarks.