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Community-maintained version of Ubiquity for Firefox 3.6

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 19:05

Longtime Ubiquity contributor and community member Satyr has continued working on the Ubiquity codeline. He’s posted a build of the extension based on the latest source from his personal code repository.

Satyr’s build is based on the 0.5 codeline and it should be able to work with Firefox 3.6, so you may want to try it out if you have been frustrated by the incompatibility between Ubiquity 0.5.x and Firefox 3.6.

Author: ilovetheopenweb

Drush 3.0: More Powerful, Flexible, and Magical

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:15

Some examples of what you can do with the latest Drush

Over the last few years Drush has matured significantly and has seen an incredible uptake in usage.

Author: ilovetheopenweb

Jetpack Mockup Clarification & Apology to MetaLab

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:00

MetaLab recently blogged that Mozilla had used their design work without permission or attribution.

Author: ilovetheopenweb

What does “Open Internet” have to learn from the Electronic Communications Privacy Act?

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 00:58

Bob Cannon Issues similar to “reasonable network management” come up in the context of wiretaps and specifically the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). ECPA is described as a rule governed by exceptions. The rule is, “thou shall not listen in on other people’s communications,” where “thou” is everyone including ISPs. One o

Author: ilovetheopenweb

Announcing the Jetpack SDK: First Milestone Release

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 19:01

We are proud to announce the first milestone release of the Jetpack SDK. While this release demonstrates the platform’s foundations and extensibility, it does not yet provide APIs for building rich add-ons. The next set of releases will add those APIs to the SDK. This release also marks the graduation of Jetpack from a Mozilla Labs prototype to a next-generation platform slated for production use with Firefox.

Author: ilovetheopenweb

The Faces of the Digital Divide

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 19:00

The “digital divide” sounds so faceless, so placeless. Who are these supposed people without an Internet connection in today’s day-and-age? Where are these places that have been left behind? And is it really that big of a deal?

Author: ilovetheopenweb

StatusNet Cloud Service Launches Public Beta

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:44

Montreal, Tuesday 9 March 2010 – StatusNet Inc launched the StatusNet Cloud Service (SCS) for public beta today. The SCS allows anyone to quickly setup a status update site at http://status.net with one of three different plans: single-user, community, and private. Over 10,000 organizations from the Sacramento Kings NBA team to software provider Mozilla are currently using the StatusNet cloud as their social platform of choice.

Author: ilovetheopenweb

Open Atrium Improving Team Communications On the Ground in Pakistan

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 15:25

DAI using Open Atrium to help their GIS teams in Pakistan communicate

Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), one of the leading international development contractors, has deployed Open Atrium to help its GIS team in Islamabad communicate with its office in Peshawar and headquarters back in Bethesda on a capacity building p

Author: ilovetheopenweb

Talk around the Browser Choice screen

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:30

In the first week of Microsoft deploying the Browser Choice screen more widely, media across Europe, both technical and consumer, have covered a number of topics related to this milestone. Many journalists wondered which browser vendor will “win” as described by the most downloads through the Browser Choice screen. Several wondered whether or not the Browser Choice screen will have a significant impact on market share across Europe.

Author: ilovetheopenweb

Film Annex

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:20

CC BY-SA by Film Annex

Last October, Film Annex, “an online film distribution platform and Web Television Network,” launched CC license support, enabling filmmakers to release their films under one of our licenses.