Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
One of the biggest struggles I face every day is information overload, just like most of the people reading this post. As a result I am constantly reassessing the value of various feeds in my RSS reader and viciously pruning the ones I don't really need. I don't subscribe to ...
Tags: mozilla | 18 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Google Chrome has achieved striking success considering that it has yet to celebrate its first birthday. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch claims that the browser now has 30 million users (citing Google as a source). [Update: The Google OS post mentions this in the second sentence so I'm not sure why ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, mozilla, web os | 20 Comments »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
I was chatting recently with the founder of a high-profile startup that is making strategic use of Mozilla technology. "People keep telling me that WebKit is the future," he complained. "Have we made the wrong choice?"
I did my best to reassure him of course, providing arguments that support their choice ...
Tags: apple, chrome, firefox, flock, google, mozilla, platform, webkit | 28 Comments »
Friday, February 6th, 2009
In a few hours I'll be jetting off to Brussels for FOSDEM, the annual European open source get together. On Sunday I'll be presenting an updated version of the Prism talk that I gave at MozCamp EU last fall. We have big plans for Prism, which has slipped somewhat under ...
Tags: fosdem, me, mozilla | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
I'm in Madrid right now for a couple of days of R&R (in theory, at least) before heading to Barcelona tomorrow for EU MozCamp. I'll be running a session on Prism. The timing is auspicious since we're at something of a crossroads with the product. It doesn't have any obvious ...
Tags: mozilla, prism | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Let's call this an "in case you missed it" edition of Browser Bits and Bobs, since I've been disgustingly busy and haven't posted anything in far too long. But for those who have been preoccupied by events outside the tech sector (MLB postseason, impending financial armageddon, talking chihuahuas, etc.): this ...
Tags: ajaxian, chrome, chromium, flash, fluid, google, html5, mozilla, skyfire | 6 Comments »
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Wending my way through this week's Economist, I came across an article about "non-profit capitalism". (Get it while it's hot, it'll probably end up behind a pay wall soon enough.) Specifically, the article describes the recent IPO filing of a non-profit organization called Do Something:
This imitation of the for-profit IPO ...
Tags: money, mozilla | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
September is here, and I'm slipping out of a mild off-season hibernation after a relatively laidback summer ("relative" being the operative word when you're coming off ten years of stressful startup life). In particular, this blog has been sorely neglected. I'm planning to ramp things up once again, and what ...
Tags: chrome, firefox, google, ie, javascript, mozilla, ssb | 7 Comments »
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
In part one of "Thoughts on XULRunner" I discussed why XULRunner is of strategic value to Mozilla Corporation and the community at large. Assuming (with a rather optimistic leap of faith) that anyone besides me is convinced that it would be worthwhile to turn XULRunner into a fully fledged Rich ...
Tags: mozilla, xulrunner | 9 Comments »
Friday, August 8th, 2008
The "Firefox Plus Summit" last week was a wonderful event, bringing together 400 odd members of the Mozilla community, from core Mozilla developers to localizers from around the globe. For me, the key lesson of the summit was the continued high level of interest in Mozilla as a platform. This ...
Tags: mozilla, ria, xulrunner | 13 Comments »