Monthly Archives: June 2008

first version of about:mobile is up

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

The first version of about:mobile is up on devnews. Enjoy! (Did you sign up for the email version yet?)

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the first few days of whoisi

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I thought it might be a good idea to make a little post about the first few days of whoisi just to give people a sense of how things are going on the backend here. First of all, holy crap. … Continue reading →

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about:mobile – mozilla mobile newsletter

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

If you’re into mobile stuff and you want to know what’s going on with the Mozilla Project on the mobile front, take the time to subscribe to our mobile newsletter called ‘about:mobile’. (or follow it on The Mozilla Developer News … Continue reading →

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the other side of twitter failures

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Update: I just added twitter.com to /etc/hosts and pointed it at a site that doesn’t have a webserver. Works for now until twitter comes back. Having some lunch and I thought it might be worth a small post while my … Continue reading →

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announcing whoisi

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I’d like to announce the general availability of a project that I’ve been working on in my spare time for the last few months: whoisi.com. As a disclaimer please note that this project is not related to the work that … Continue reading →

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storytelling like the web would have designed it

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Joi Ito has a link to something he built called a flowgram [tiny link]. What’s a flowgram? It lets you tell a story while a series of photos and web pages are shown to demonstrate what you’re talking about. I’m … Continue reading →

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the big picture

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Much like my friend Robert I have been amazed by the Martian Skies entry in The Big Picture. (Robert also has an appropriate quote in his blog which is worth reading.) The guy behind it is Alan Taylor. There’s a … Continue reading →

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the colbert bump for firefox 3

Posted on June 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

The entire episode is full of awesome. Go watch it. His feeds are pretty awesome, too. (Thanks go to Jonathan Zittrain who set up the moment.)

Posted in Firefox, Geek, It Came From The Internet, Mozilla, Uncategorized | 14 Comments

firefox 3 stories around the web

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Images shamelessly stolen from Gen, Tristan and Melissa. Firefox 3, Most Emailed news at Yahoo! Firefox 3 on the home page of BBC! WebUser home page announcing tomorrow’s chat. Firefox 3 article on the BBC Ecrans.fr (part of Liberation) Schrep … Continue reading →

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3 hours until download day starts – use the mirrors please!

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

3 hours left until download day starts (10am US pacific, 1pm US eastern.) There are direct ftp links showing up on various sites already. Please don’t give those links to other people because it doesn’t spread the load out to … Continue reading →

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