Archive for the 'Mozilla' Category

2010 Goals: Data Discussion

Monday, October 27th, 2008

On Tuesday, October 28 at 1 p.m. Pacific Time I’ll be holding a session to talk about the privacy and data section of the Mozilla 2010 goals. This will broadcast on Air Mozilla. We’ll also use the IRC channel (#2010goals) for people who want to ask questions via IRC. As usual, Asa will be the [...]

2010 Goals and Broader Mozilla Foundation Ideas

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Mark Surman recently joined the Mozilla Foundation as our new Executive Director.  Mark and I are spending a lot of time together, and one topic is the 2010 goals.  I crafted these goals to be focused on our products and technology.  Now that Mark has been immersed in Mozilla for a few weeks (coming up [...]

Multiple Discussions re 2010 goals

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

We started a conversation a while back about two year product and technology goals. I’d like to return to that discussion. It’s clear that a blog post and comments is a hard way to discuss a complex and nuance topics like this. Here are some techniques we’ll try to get broad [...]

Long Silence

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

I’ve been suffering from writer’s block. I hope to correct that very shortly.

Disconnect Regarding Data

Monday, October 6th, 2008

I’ve read the comments to my last post a number of times and I think I now understand what’s happening.
There are a bunch of comments along the lines of “if Firefox starts to include something that tracks my behavior and automatically sends that information off to someone else, then I don’t want to use it [...]

Basic Examples of Usage Data

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

In past posts I’ve said that I believe there is a need to make basic, aggregate, anonymized information about Internet usage more widely available.  If everything that is known about the basic usage of the Internet is closed and proprietary then the Internet as an open platform will suffer.  Here I’ll try to describe the [...]

Discussion of Mobile Goals — Sept. 17 2008

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

On Wednesday, September 17 a group of 10 or 15 people had a discussion about the proposed 2010 “mobile” goal. The notes of that meeting are below. I’ve also incorporated additional comments from the newsgroup. Asa, Atul, and Nanda are interested in facilitating future discussions of these topics. (I’m interested too, but not always around. [...]

Diving Deeper into the Proposed 2010 Goal for Mobile

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Note:  I saw one press article wondering if including “have an effective product in the mobile space” in our 2010 goals means that we won’t ship something interesting until 2010.  That is not the case at all.  We will ship well before then.  The intent of this goal was to say: in 2010 when we [...]

Mechanics for discussion of 2010 goals

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

About ten days ago I published a proposed set of product and technology goals for the next two years.   It’s  a bit hard to talk about the topic in one big chunk.  There are some very thoughtful comments to my last post that I want to discuss, but if feels a bit fragmented to do [...]

Mock-Ups Available for Notices (previously was EULA)

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

First set of mock-ups
Second post re mock-ups