Posts Tagged: Mozilla
Local man previews Firefox OS
Posted by on Sunday, May 12, 2013 in - 2 comments
My friend and occasionally-quadrennial conference co-organizer, Peter Rukavia, is writing about his experience with a developer-preview Firefox OS phone. • His perspective is particularly interesting as it doesn’t come from inside the Firefox/Mozilla world. He’s just your average run-of-the-mill …
Updated the previous post with a link to the presentation video: A Brief History of Mozilla.com (and .org)
Posted by on Saturday, April 16, 2011 in - 1 comment
Live from Mozilla: A Brief History of Mozilla.com (and .org)
Posted by on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 in
Reporting today on location in sunny Mountain View, California and the lovely Mozilla headquarters. • I’m doing a talk in the Mozilla lounge about the history of the mozilla websites called A Brief History Mozilla.com (and .org) today (April 12, 2011) at 12:30PM Pacific time (4:30pm Atlantic … read more »
Mozilla Summit 2010 Group Photo
Posted by on Sunday, July 25, 2010 in - 1 comment
I am proud, grateful, and generally delighted to be one of the many smiling faces in this photo: • Photo by Gen Kanai.
The Pretty Future (of Firefox)
Posted by on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 in - 5 comments
Stephen Horlander over at Mozilla is doing great work on the visual appearance and functionality of future versions of Firefox. See his latest Windows Theme/UI Update. • Pixel nerds may remember Stephen from his significant contributions to Firefox 1.0 with the Winstripe and Pinstripe themes.
Firefox at the State Department
Posted by on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 in - 1 comment
In what sounds like the worst meeting ever, the US State Department’s Town Hall Meeting to Announce the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) (that’s really what it’s called), a State Department staff member asked this question: • “Can you please let the staff use an alternative … read more »
Firefox 3.5
Posted by on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 in - 2 comments
As with every major release of Firefox since 1.0, I’ve had the privilege of working with Mozilla on their website updates for the new Firefox 3.5 release. • If you care about web browsers, you already know why it’s awesome, and if you don't care about web browsers, all you need to know is that …
Fancy Firefox 3.5 Demo
Posted by on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 in - 1 comment
We made a cool tech demo of some new Video features from the upcoming Firefox 3.5 (which is required to view the demo, of course). • View the Demo(Firefox 3.5 beta required)
Shepard Fairey: From Mozilla to Obama
Posted by on Thursday, March 5, 2009 in - 15 comments
Artist Shepard Fairey has recently become widely known for his iconic Obama posters (featured on the cover of Time magazine). It is much less widely known that he created another iconic image from the tech world. • Sometime in 1998, Shepard Fairey created the lizard artwork that became the logo …
The Long Road to Firefox 3
Posted by on Friday, July 4, 2008 in - 7 comments
With the release of Firefox 3 last month, the Mozilla project, corporation, community, and the open-source software world in general have a great achievement on their collective hands. • My involvement with Mozilla began with a weblog post in October of 2003, over a year before the initial …