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Why Dec 21, 2012 Is Important 18 Dec 2012 | 07:06 am
The Mayans were so advanced in their astronomical math that they calculated really long periods of time. For example, they calculated the birth of the universe. In their Long Count calendar they had a...
Shame The Thieves or Fix the Music Model 19 Jun 2012 | 04:18 am
David Lowery wrote a piece on how downloading music is hurting musicians (which is a response to Emily White's piece on admitting to not buying music). Here is my response. Music is a really interest...
The Key To A Successful Startup Is Not Its Concept 20 Feb 2012 | 08:28 am
In this article, a coffee shop entrepreneur laments a more "celebrity" entrepreneur who launched a similar startup but got more traction. His conclusion: "The difference between the guy in the coffee...
Let's Buy Lobbyists To Save The Internet 28 Jan 2012 | 06:07 am
At ORD Camp last weekend Ben Huh led a discussion about how we -- a group of geeks and artists -- can save the Internet. We won the fight against SOPA and PIPA for now but those laws will just sneak i...
What's Happening at Mozilla? 20 Sep 2011 | 07:50 am
Most people at Mozilla are remote so each quarter we sync up face to face as a group for an all-hands meeting. There are over 600 employees! We of course sync up in smaller groups more frequently but ...
How Do We Open Up The Social Web? 4 Jul 2011 | 04:49 am
The release of Google Plus presents a unique opportunity to open up the social web. Why? Because it's a compelling product -- it's intuitive and fun with innovative features like circles, hangouts, sp...
Music Everywhere: Amazon Cloud Player 31 Mar 2011 | 04:10 am
A few services have been popping up lately that let you stream music from any computer or device (the so called "cloud"). Amazon just released theirs, uncreatively named Cloud Player. I'm pretty exci...
Firefox Goes Mobile 30 Mar 2011 | 01:44 am
When I got my first Android "smart phone" it felt like a slow, hard-to-use computer on dial-up Internet. Now I use an Android G2 (HTC Vision) which I'd call a pretty snappy, easier-to-use computer. I ...
Firefox 4 Is Here And It's Glowing 23 Mar 2011 | 02:02 am
Firefox 4 has launched! If you want to watch the whole planet upgrade in realtime head over to glow.mozilla.org (built by @potch, @jeffbalogh, and others!). If you haven't already downloaded Firefox 4...
What Happened To The Feeling Lucky Search In Firefox 4's Awesome Bar? 22 Mar 2011 | 05:27 am
Firefox 4 is about to ship! And it contains a massive amount of enhancements, especially UI enhancements, blazing fast JavaScript, and more HTML5. I'll probably write more about these hot new features...
