Posts Tagged: Open Source Software
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 - 1 comment
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 Apple-ication Tax
Posted by on Sunday, August 23, 2009 in - 8 comments
Imagine for a moment that you are a brilliant person. Are you with me so far? Ok, now imagine that you’ve created a software application that everyone wants. Maybe it’s Lotus 123, or Mathematica, Doom, or a screensaver with flying toasters. • Imagine then, that as you went to sell your …
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 »
The Creepy Canyon
Posted by on Friday, July 10, 2009 in - 1 comment
John Gruber suggests that the common Linux desktop interfaces of Gnome and KDE fall into the uncanny valley - similar enough to Windows for you to expect similar behaviour, but different enough to be problematic: • “By establishing a conceptual framework that mimicks Windows, they can never …
Technology Freedom in Metaphor
Posted by on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in - 18 comments
Twitter • If Twitter were a phone company, you could only call people who used the same phone company as you. • iPhone • If the iPhone were a desktop computer, you could only install applications approved by Microsoft (or Apple). • DVD • If DVDs were books, you couldn’t read a book from …
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 …
A clever fundraiser from the open source media player, Miro: you can adopt a line of code and watch it mature.
Posted by on Saturday, May 2, 2009 in - 1 comment