Christopher Blizzard

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Month: November, 2009

mozilla hosting an event for the sunlight foundation’s great american hackathon – join us!

Update – we’ve decided to cancel our hackathon event due to a lack of interest. Sorry!

why open video?

The open video alliance has put up a wonderful little video up that tries to talk about all of the issues around open video and why it’s important. It’s based on Interviews that were done at the recent Open Video Conference.
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsfree video player

curious

Previously.

food on thanksgiving

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. A day where we say thanks for all of the good things that we’ve been lucky enough to be graced with over the last year.
It’s also a day that we eat a lot of food.
Earlier today I watched this talk on Deep Agriculture given by Michael Pollan [...]

earth

There would be video here if you were using a modern browser that supports open video.

1920×1080 Theora | mp4
Via Nat Friedman.

the next firefox business model

If you want to use our plugin APIs you have to sign an agreement that says anytime a user crashes because of your software, you pay us a nickel.  We wouldn’t have funding problems for a while, but boy would Adobe’s shareholders be pissed.

bringing theora to youtube (the hard way)

I switch back and forth between Linux and Windows 7 pretty regularly these days.  But I have has this problem with Linux. I can’t run Firefox 3.6 nightlies (which are nicer than the 3.5 release) and Weave and Flash all at the same time. I can run Firefox 3.5 and I can have [...]