Posts Tagged with ‘mozilla’

It was only yesterday that we discussed Mozilla’s idea to crowdsource definition of the future of the web, internet browser in particular, by calling for concepts of what internet users want the perfect browser of the future to be. Now it seems that Mozilla already has some plans of their own - and these plans seem to include Firefox domination in every possible field.
Mozilla has announced plans to develop Snowl, a Firefox extension that is intended to combine all your [...]

The blogosphere is abuzz around the latest initiative named concept series by Mozilla to find out what internet users actually want the internet future to be like. Sure, for Mozilla as the creator of Firefox the most important thing is how what we expect of our browsers - they really seem to want to make our browsing experience a perfect one (and I do hope they will succeed since even on their own every new version of Firefox [...]

Read any advice about bootstrapping your start-up company and odds are you'll find a tip about using your loyal user base to contribute services to your company. It sounds like a great idea in theory: you have all these people who love what you are doing and want to help. Your users may be willing to code for you or design for you or help localize your app by translating all your pages into languages they speak. The question left [...]

It's amazing anyone has the courage to even venture online these days. From web sites to virtual worlds, we are being told to fear those tubes at every turn.
Google went on the terror offensive this past weekend with the fearmongering, releasing a report that told us it isn't just porn sites that may want to install malware on your machine. According to the study, however, it probably isn't intentional on the part of the site owners, who are being hacked [...]

Thursday night, the first face-to-face meeting was held at the RapLeaf offices in California or those involved in the Data Portability Group, including Chris Saad (Faraday Media), Daniela Barbosa (Dow Jones), J. Sullivan (Mozilla), Mike McKenna (Yahoo), Marc Canter, Tod Sampson (MyBlogLog), Steve Williams (Digg), Ben Metcalfe, David Recordon (Six Apart), Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), J. Trent Adams (MatchMine) and Jim Meyer (LinkedIn).
Chris Saad opened the meeting with introductions and explaining the new hierarchy of the Google Groups set up for [...]

Some of you may remember a Mozilla tool released last October known as Prism. This prototype-stage software, originally released only for Windows, showed Firefox users where the evolution of web apps was headed; towards site-specific browsers (SSBs).
Although a Mac version was eventually released (as well as a Linux one), Prism's cross-platform intentions don't exactly make for a native-feel when run within Mac OS X. Now, to provide a more seamless desktop experience with SSBs for Mac users, Todd Ditchendorf [...]

In recent news, Mozilla has announced the launch of their new product: Weave. Mozilla wants Weave to be your one stop shop for your bookmarks, passwords and other data you'd like more control over online. Is the world ready for their dream of desktop to Internet fluidity?
I'm not sure this is the big step it's being made out to be right now. I think it is a step, and in the right direction, but it isn't the step - [...]

This recurring subject of the Windows-Internet Explorer bundle’s anti-competitive behavior, as was recently reported once more by the BBC, is, I must say, a very tired one.
Yes, it is true that Microsoft packages its Internet browser with its operating systems sold both off the shelf and as partially-subsidized software for most new PCs. And no, that is not the ideal scenario other software manufacturers – Mozilla and Opera, to name just a couple – favor. They would, generally [...]

Slowly, but surely, people seem to be performing more and more tasks through the use of online web applications rather than with traditional desktop software.
For this reason, Mozilla Labs announced yesterday that it will be launching new experiments that aim to seal the gap between the desktop and web apps" as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur."
The first application to surface from these experiments is Prism, formerly known as WebRunner, which is designed to [...]