Google has announced the availability of a plugin that implements 3D technology and makes it available over the web. You can read about the announcement in in the Google Code Blog and in an excellent article by Ryan Paul in Ars Technica.
Ryan points out that there are significant differences between what Google has built [...]
Last week we had a visit at Mozilla from @tobimcfly [website], who has done what I call “protest” add-ons and artwork for Firefox. His work can be pretty provocative and has been covered in the press. He’s also behind the artzilla website that covers art and expression at the edges with Firefox, all wrapped [...]
I got this dialog on Facebook today and I was completely stumped. Totally. I read the paragraph over and over, trying to figure out what I meant. I read it to friends, didn’t help. Thought about it some more. It turns out that what I really wanted to do was both of these things. I [...]
I’m just going to post some stuff I found on the web and I really like. Here goes.
1. Aza Raskin has a good overview of how people use the web in China. There’s a service over there called QQ that started with chat and has morphed into everything. About that:
Whereas chat is fundamentally about people [...]
Fennec, which is the code name we’re using for the lead-up to a mobile version of Firefox, has reached an important milestone: Alpha 1. Mark has details up on his blog, including some good feeedback from people trying it out.
We’ve got builds for the Maemo platform. We also have builds for Linux Desktop, Mac and [...]
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 at TED in 2005. Even though this was filmed back in 2005 (before everyone knew what [...]
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 well tread ground: People are worried that Microsoft will leverage its market power to create [...]
Some good stuff in my whoisi stream today. Enough of a pattern in order to draw some interesting lines between different posts.
Fred Wilson posts some excerpts from an essay on what comes after post-modernism (tiny link). A little bit thick, but an interesting idea. That our next era will be defined by [...]
Ari Jaaksi talks about Linux on Phones and what’s going on at Nokia.
He mentions that he’s working with us at Mozilla – very true. And good fodder for another post on another day.
He also touches on an important topic for me, which is the difference between between being “open” and being “good.” Being [...]
On John’s great review I added Helvetica to my Netflix queue and watched it late last night.
What a fantastic documentary! As a movie I felt it was really well done – great pacing, great interviews and felt like it really found the heart of the story. It started out by talking about the [...]