If I appear to be slower to respond to e-mail lately, it’s because my two-year-old MacBook Pro broke down last week, leaving me without access to my local data. It started with some occasional graphical glitches (see video) but it only took a few days until the computer wouldn’t boot anymore. Interestingly, during this gradual [...]
Archive for the ‘Mozilla’ Category
How to make community members stick
How to grow communities is a hot topic these days. Francesco Lodolo recently blogged about how the Mozilla Italia community mainly consists of veterans who have been participants for several years, and how hard it is for them to find new contributors.
Abdulkadir Topal from the German community also blogged about getting help for localization work [...]
A day to remember
Today is a special day. Some people will remember it as the day when Firefox 3.5 was released. I call it the day the web was upgraded. Stay tuned for announcements on mozilla.com soon!
Microsoft – Making it easier
Remember back in 1984, when people were using Word to compose their e-mail messages that were sent around to colleagues and friends? We’ll chances are people will keep doing that in 2014 as well.
We’ve made the decision to continue to use Word for creating e-mail messages because we believe it’s the best e-mail authoring [...]
I fell in love with Geneva
It’s Midsummer Eve in Sweden and I finally got some time to reflect on the fantastic weekend I had in Geneva together with other members of the Mozilla community. I was there to lead a discussion about SUMO and community support, with a focus on sharing experiences between the five local communities represented: Denmark, France, [...]
User experience and houseflies
As I mentioned previously, user experience (UX) design is one of my specific computer interests, and as the project lead for Mozilla’s Firefox support website, I obviously care a lot about website UX in particular.
One thing that keeps annoying me is how many websites are designed to make use of some “modern” features of the [...]
Thanks, Microsoft, for proving Mozilla’s relevance on the Internet
Part of Mozilla’s Manifesto:
The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
Part of Microsoft’s “Ten Grand Is Buried Here” campaign (emphasis added):
If you’re the first to locate the buried ten grand, you keep it.
How will you know if you’ve found it? It’s a cleverly concealed webpage that only Internet Explorer 8 [...]
EU Inter-Community Meetup Tomorrow!
Tomorrow I’ll be traveling to Geneva for the first EU Inter-Community Meetup, arranged by no other than the hard-to-resist William Quiviger. I’m really looking forward to this event, which will focus on bringing together active communities from across Europe in the same city for a day of presentations, discussions and workshops. Also, I’ve never [...]
Firefox 3.5 — Upgrading the web once again
If you haven’t already, be sure to visit the coolest sub-domain of mozilla.org so far: hacks.mozilla.org.
The site was created to demonstrate what will be possible to do in Firefox 3.5 using open technologies. That is, technologies that are part of web standards like JavaScript and HTML — not proprietary plugins owned by single companies like, [...]
Nothing to see here, please move along
I regard myself as geeky enough that I should be able to solve computer problems myself, or at least with the help of some self-service online searching. However, there are times when I simply can’t figure it out. I don’t know if I’m slowly getting dumber as I’m getting older, or if I’m just getting [...]
Recent Comments