Firefox Ubiquity – letting language control your technology, not the other way around

September 1st, 2008

The internet is beyond a fad. Of that, there’s no doubt. It’s a powerful tool, and it all centers around communication. The ease of using the medium isn’t always up to par, however, and so it’s only the geeks that seem to be on the ball when it comes to the sharing, storing, comparing and broadcasting.

With the advent of blogs, social networks like facebook, mashup sites, and instant notification concepts like RSS, that’s all changing.

There’s a great project in the works that takes it a step further, putting all of these tools at your fingertips, and making it easy to use everyday language, too.

Take a brief look at Ubiquity for Firefox in this great intro video by Aza Raskin, and then, take a deeper look, if you like.

Tags: Aza Raskin, Firefox, Humanized, mozilla, open source, Raskin, ubiquity

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Yes, they have parties for browsers… when your browser is Firefox 3

June 18th, 2008

Or, if you have a great fanbase of cool, dedicated people.

If you haven’t already, you should download Firefox 3. It’s a great browser, and Firefox has long been the darling of the Open Source community. I’ll have an article detailing exactly why, but this is just a quick report on the great evening I had.

I was at the launch of Firefox 3 last night, and was pleasantly surprised at the number of people there at 6pm. A couple of hours later, with the beer and cheer freely flowing, the numbers of partiers was over a hundred, and the downloads were in the millions.

Read about the rest of the evening…

Tags: browsers, Firefox 3, Free as in beer, mozilla, party, Toronto

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 at 9:47 am and is filed under Articles, personal, review. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

There’s a party for Firefox!

June 13th, 2008

There’s a party for the launch of Firefox 3. This Tuesday, if you haven’t already, consider making the switch to a standards-compliant browser, with a wonderful, supportive community.

Tags: announcement, Firefox, mozilla, party

This entry was posted on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 4:01 pm and is filed under newsBytes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.