Lightning Talks on TV?
A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes - about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I've been mostly out of town when they've been shooting, I [...]
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Mozilla Foundation Weekly Status 2007-04-27
Summary
Progress on the Internet as Public Good Symposium (but not as much as we would probably like - the organization team is very busy, which makes coordinating our activities difficult.) Finally started working my way through the stale governance bugs again. This time around, I am getting some response from people.
Activities
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SCALE 5x: The SoCal Linux Expo 2007
Ilan Rabinovitch let me know that the SCALE team is getting started on version 5x of the SoCal Linux Expo.
In past years, SCALE has been a great community event - the ratio of promoters to real Linux enthusiasts is low and the attendees are friendly. Also, like most other Linux conferences, attendees have a strong [...]
BoingBoing gets in a knot over the ping attribute
Boing Boing makes the following interesting statement about some work that was just done in FireFox:
A new proposed feautre in Firefox/Mozilla automates a common web-linking technique in a way that raises grave concerns about user-privacy. (Full article here.)
Some important things to know about this situation are:
Websites already do this in a way that [...]
Firefox 1.5 Released
Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5.
Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with error pages. Web developers and can now take advantage of SVG, Canvas, [...]