My colleague Gen Kanai and John Lilly have pointed me to an interesting article on Wired: The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online. Of course, the author is not really using the word socialism in the same way we use it to refer to Eastern Europe 30 years ago, and I'm not sure […]
Open video: chicken, meet egg
jeudi 28 mai 2009. en
One of the many cool things that Firefox 3.5 will bring is Open Video. What is it? It's native video in the browser using the HTML 5 video element, combined with the non-proprietary Ogg Theora codec. This means that now video is able to become a first class citizen on the Web (it's native, you don't […]
dimanche 24 mai 2009
Jetpack and Generativity
dimanche 24 mai 2009. en
As you may have seen, Mozilla Labs has recently announced Jetpack: Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know. In short, the goal of Jetpack is to enable Web developers to create extensions for Firefox. There are already roughly 8,000 […]
mercredi 20 mai 2009
About Generativity
mercredi 20 mai 2009. en
There is a key concept about what we do at Mozilla, which is kind of familiar to most of us. It's the notion of Generativity. I know, it's not even a word! However, it looks like this concept is not so well understood by people who are not spending most of their time building the Web or a browser or […]
mercredi 6 mai 2009
Poetry and pragmatics at Mozilla
mercredi 6 mai 2009. en
John Lilly keynoting As I'm struggling to recover from the the lag, my colleague John Lilly has published a great post about last week's all hands meeting in California. John has included his slides from his keynote. I'll quote him directly about the content: I wanted to talk about some of the […]
mercredi 15 avril 2009
Making video a first class citizen of the Web
mercredi 15 avril 2009. en
For years, digital video has been soaring, just like still digital images 15 years earlier. It's now easy to capture video, editing it is now possible thanks to user-friendly applications and with broadband becoming more common, the pipes are now big enough to download video. The only caveat is that […]
mercredi 11 mars 2009
Mozcamp in Utrecht
mercredi 11 mars 2009. en
The first MozCamp (of this kind at least) was held last Friday in The Netherlands, in Utrecht last Friday. Quoting the Wiki: MozCamps are local events for people passionate about the open web. Each event includes discussion, hands-on-demos and collaborative scheming about ways to promote and protect […]
jeudi 26 février 2009
Quote of the day
jeudi 26 février 2009. en
Tom Watson MP, Minister for Digital Engagement (UK) has declared: Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments in IT and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that individuals, working together over the Internet, can create products that rival and sometimes beat […]
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