Christopher Blizzard

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Month: June, 2008

first version of about:mobile is up

The first version of about:mobile is up on devnews. Enjoy!

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the first few days of whoisi

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. Frankly, I had no idea that people would be as interested as they are. [...]

about:mobile – mozilla mobile newsletter

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 Weblog. But, really, you should get on the mailing list because it’s cooler that way.)

We [...]

the other side of twitter failures

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 burrito cools.

I just had to disable polling on whoisi because twitter is down. Again. [...]

announcing whoisi

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 I do at Mozilla nor is it endorsed by my employer in any way. It’s [...]

storytelling like the web would have designed it

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 so used to static presentations that when I was first using it [...]

the big picture

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 good interview with him in which he explains some of the thinking behind it:

…my [...]

the colbert bump for firefox 3

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.)

firefox 3 stories around the web

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 and Paul on the Beeb!

Liberation.fr home page, 20080617, with Firefox

Gazeta.pl homepage, 20080617 featuring Firefox 3

Firefox 3 on ZDNet

125 Google News Stories

Firefox [...]

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

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 our huge network of mirrors. (Like the one that we just added in Japan [...]