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Firefox for iPhone? No, but almost...

The only thing better than having a browser in your pocket, is having the all of the bookmarks, browser history and the open tabs from your desktop or notebook browser in your pocket as well.

Now you can! Mozilla Labs has worked up a nifty iPhone App that uses their Weave Sync technology to put [...]

On Beyond T-Shirts

To help spread the word about the Jetpack for Learning design challenge, I worked-up a design for a Jetpack for Learning t-shirt for Second Life avatars. But that didn’t really do justice to Sean Martell’s nifty Jetpack design.
So… since almost anything is possible in Second Life, an actual flyable virtual Jetpack seemed like a [...]

Mozilla Jetpack for Learning

The Mozilla Foundation invites you to help turn the open Web into a rich learning environment and explore new possibilities for learning online as part of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge.

For this Design Challenge they are looking for innovative Firefox add-ons that turn the open Web into a rich learning environment.

Jetpack [...]

The 'Secret' Silicon Valley Lunch

The best lunches are those that provide more food for thought than food for my already overweight frame.

My favorite lunches used to be those put on by Lunch 2.0 which mixes lunch with a presentation or a panel discussion at an interesting technology company somewhere around the valley. They almost always attract an interesting [...]

Drumbeat - Open the Web by Opening Data

Mark Surman and others at Mozilla have been mulling over Drumbeat, an effort to promote awareness of the benefits of an open web. In his most recent blog post, Mark asks “what concrete things could Mozilla and Drumbeat do to support people creating civic and social value on the web?” …and he has posted [...]

How Math Teachers Can Help Improve the Web

Mozilla Labs has a plug-in for the awesome Firefox browser that helps them collect information about how people use the browser. As with all things Mozilla, the Test Pilot plug-in is open. It shows you all of the data it has collected and lets you decide whether or not to send it along to [...]

Making Firefox the Killer-App for K-12 Education

There are some projects over at Mozilla Labs that just might make it possible to turn Firefox into the “killer-app” for K-12 education, both in North America, and around the world.

JetPack is a set of tools for extending the browser using open, standards-based technologies like CSS, HTML, and Javascript.
Prism is another labs project that lets [...]

Deep-Seated Fears for the Future of Fennec (Firefox Mobile)

I recently saw a post in a discussion group asking about an emulator for Fennec, the mobile version of the stunniningly wonderful Firefox browser. The answer that came back from someone at Mozilla Labs was deeply disturbing:

“My first thought is that I think the ‘mobile web’ should be the same web, so an [...]