Monthly Archives: August 2008

comcast says no to competing video services and imposes bandwidth caps

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Comcast has decided to impose a 250GB/month limit on their customers. I have a lot of friends that use Comcast for their internet service provider and are likely to hit this limit, even counting fully legit data. Linux isos aren’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Comcast, Open Web, Tee Vee, Time Warner Cable, Video | 26 Comments

a little light friday fare: first aid kit

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Via the ever-wonderful Andrew Weissman who echos someone who has a somewhat more sarcastic approach than I prefer to music, manufactured or not. Description of the band, the band page, single on amazon and a myspace band page. Enjoy! Update: … Continue reading →

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upcoming mozilla toronto devday

Posted on August 28, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

David Humphrey has a post up about the upcoming Mozilla Toronto DevDay. It’s taking place on Monday Sept 15 and Tuesday Sept 16 and is worth checking out if you’re in the Toronto area.

Posted in Events, Mozilla | 4 Comments

unread on whoisi

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I’ve added a new feature to whoisi. It will now keep track of things you haven’t seen: To see the new items in your follow stream click on the link like the one above that says “318 Unread.” When you’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in whoisi | 4 Comments

tracemonkey and you

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

There have been a pile of posts about the TraceMonkey code that just landed in mozilla-central. mozilla-central is the source code repository we’re using in the lead up to Firefox 3.1. Here are some posts if you want to read … Continue reading →

Posted in Embedding, Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, TraceMonkey | 6 Comments

keep up with new web technologies in gecko

Posted on August 22, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Gecko has long been a leader in supporting web standards but it’s always been hard to tell what we’ve added, when we added it and when it might hit a release. We’ve set up a new web tech blog for … Continue reading →

Posted in Gecko, Mozilla, Web Standards | 2 Comments

a short future history of JavaScript

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

If you have the time I strongly suggest that you take some time and listen to the second edition of the openweb podcast. This episode should really be called the “Brendan show” because he does most of the talking. But … Continue reading →

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building the complete browser for everyone everywhere

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work. Ryan’s article contains this quote … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, GNOME, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Qt, WebKit | 16 Comments

some clay shirky for your enjoyment

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Updated February 22nd, 2009. I was inspired by one of Gen’s posts and I thought it would be worth it to make a post that contains some links to some great Clay Shirky talks. Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration … Continue reading →

Posted in Clay Shirky, Design, Mozilla | 4 Comments

competing for an open (generative) web

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

John Lilly pointed people at a really good article in the New York Times by John Markoff about the Olympics as a hook to get Silverlight onto people’s computers. It’s a good overview and is worth reading. The article covers … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, Google, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 15 Comments