Category Archives: Open Web

open-government.us

Posted on December 2, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

The matter of copyright and access to content seems like a small thing in the mix of problems that the new President will face when he gets into office.  Indeed, when compared to problems like climate change, a faltering world … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, Lessig, Obama, Open Web, Politics, Regulations, Video | 1 Comment

some great quotes from today

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Design, Geek, It Came From The Internet, Lessig, Open Web, Politics, Regulations | 2 Comments

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

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

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

ogg theora encoder improvements

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Since we’ve announced ogg theora support for the next version of Firefox I thought it might be worth it to point out that there has been a lot of recent work to improve the state of the theora video encoder. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, GNOME, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 15 Comments

two cool things: ogg support in mozilla and canvas for IE

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Two cool things coming out at the summit today. First, Mozilla is committing to include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release that includes support for the video element tag. (Very likely to be Firefox 3.1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 47 Comments

upcoming travel and event schedule – guadec, oscon + more

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

July is going to be a pretty intense travel month for me. Here’s a rundown of where I will be: July 6th-July 10th: Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be there for GUADEC and I’m speaking on Wednesday. Hopefully to re-iterate how important … Continue reading →

Posted in Fennec, Firefox, Kicking My Ass, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Speaking, Travel, whoisi | 1 Comment

smells like victory

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I love the smell of software in the morning. June 17th.

Posted in Firefox, Mozilla, Open Web | 2 Comments

some random mozilla-related links for your enjoyment

Posted on May 30, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Design, Firefox, GNOME, Google, Linux, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web | 1 Comment