Category Archives: Mozilla

Mozilla-related items.

why open video?

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

[ Note: Mike Shaver gives the short version of this post.  I have done a great job of burying the lead here. There's a post from the Wikimedia Foundation on the topic and a post in the Mozilla Blog as … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Long Attention Span, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 108 Comments

evangelism work week

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

This week the Evangelism team are all in Mountain View to connect and plan for 2009.  A crazy bunch of people who care about a lot of different things – add-ons, documentation, community development and the open web. One of … Continue reading →

Posted in Evangelism, Mozilla | 1 Comment

at FOSDEM 2009

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

For those of you who missed my brief note on twitter + identi.ca, I’ll be at FOSDEM this year to meet people from Europe.  Although I’ll mostly be at the Mozilla events for FOSDEM I’ll also be there to talk … Continue reading →

Posted in Events, FOSDEM, Mozilla | 3 Comments

streaming video in firefox

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Asa Dotzler has been trying to get live streaming working with our new native video support that’s coming with Firefox 3.1.  That is, video that is taken by a camera, encoded and pushed directly out to a web server instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Gecko, General, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 21 Comments

howto: follow firefox 3.1 beta, trunk or final

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

Asa points out some incorrect information in an article on Wired about following different branches of development on Chrome.  We’ve been doing this at Mozilla for years and years but I thought it might be worth documenting how to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, howto, Mozilla, QMO | 4 Comments

3 short mozilla videos worth watching

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

First, Aza Raskin does a quick interview with Dan Mills to talk about what’s going on with Weave. There’s been a huge amount of development going on in the weave project including a completely new server and client. I’ve heard … Continue reading →

Posted in Fennec, Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla, Video, Weave | Leave a comment

looking for a contact at NASA

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

This is a “help me” post.  I’m looking for a contact at NASA.  In particular, someone in the shuttle program who might have access to previous launch high-level telemetry data.  If someone knows someone who knows someone, drop me a … Continue reading →

Posted in Mozilla | 6 Comments

mozilla mission + financials – 2007 and beyond

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Mitchell Baker has posted some results from Mozilla’s 2007 financial filings and how they relate to our ability to execute against our non-profit mission over the coming years.  The numbers are what the press will likely report, just given history … Continue reading →

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welcome paul rouget

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

As John mentioned I’ve taken over helping to run the Evangelism group inside of Mozilla.  One of the best moments I’ve had in this new role has been to offer a full-time role to Paul Rouget. Paul has been extremely … Continue reading →

Posted in Evangelism, Mozilla | 4 Comments

Fennec Alpha 1

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in Beta, Design, Fennec, Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla, N800, N810 | 4 Comments