NotesEverything about apps feels like a win for usersâthey are faster and easier to use than what came before. But underneath all that convenience is something sinister: the end of the very openness that allowed Internet companies to grow into some of the most powerful or important companies of the 21st century.Unfurl
NotesPeople often ask me: Why are you still involved so deeply with Mozilla? Firefox won. Why havenât you gone on to do something else? Does Mozilla still have work to do? Unfurl
NotesOpenDaylight is an open platform for network programmability to enable SDN and create a solid foundation for NFV for networks at any size and scale.Unfurl
NotesIn the coming era both the opportunities and threats to the Web are just as big as they were 15 years ago. As the role of data grows and device capabilities expand, the Internet will become an even more central part of our lives. The need for individuals to have some control over how this works and what we experience is fundamental. Mozilla can â and must â play a key role again. We have the vision, the products and the technology to do this. We know how to enable people to participate, both by contributing to our specific activities and coming up with their own ideas that advance the bigger cause of enriching the Web.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesApple co-founder Steve Wozniak has voiced a renewed desire to see the consumer electronics giant open its architecture to the masses, allowing savvy users to expand and add to their products at will.FeedUnfurl
NotesWhile that fight is far from over, weâre now at a distinct point in the evolution of the web, and Mozilla has appropriately looked around, and broadened its reach. In particular, the browser isnât the only strategic front in the struggle to promote and maintain peopleâs sovereignty over their online lives. There are now at least three other fronts where Mozilla is making significant investments of time, energy, passion, sweat & tears. Theyâre still in their infancy, but theyâre important to understand if you want to understand Mozilla:Unfurl
NotesMaking systemic change like this is hard and it will require every invested party to stand up for what they know is right and chip away at the old system. I donât have tenure (and at this rate, no one will ever let me). I am a young punk scholar and I strongly believe that we have a responsibility to stand up for whatâs right. Open-access is right. Heavy metal gates and expensive gatekeepers isnât. Itâs time for change to happen! To all of the academics out there, I beg you to help me make this change reality. Letâs stop being silenced by academic publishers.Unfurl
Notes"While Microsoft drifts aimlessly with Windows Mobile trying to play a fruitless game of cat and mouse with Apple, and while Google â the defender of all things open and web â invests in Java with Android, one company has come out of left field with a solid vision to embrace open web technologies for its mobile platform. That company is Palm and its platform is called WebOS. And you should stand up and take notice because it is one of the most important developments in the mobile world today."Unfurl
Notes"While Microsoft drifts aimlessly with Windows Mobile trying to play a fruitless game of cat and mouse with Apple, and while Google â the defender of all things open and web â invests in Java with Android, one company has come out of left field with a solid vision to embrace open web technologies for its mobile platform. That company is Palm and its platform is called WebOS. And you should stand up and take notice because it is one of the most important developments in the mobile world today."Unfurl
Notes"Think about the whole process in 2009: Patti was able get free consulting and find a solution to a very real problem with, literally, no money changing hands. Open advice, open process, open communications (all the way from teacher Patti to author Cory), open content. End result: Detroit Public School kids get award winning reading material at no cost to the school or any of the people who helped make it happen."Unfurl
Notes"Below are the 13 facets of openness that Iâve been cataloging as a means to better describe this term. (They range on a scale starting on the technology side and ending on the side of the userâs experience.)"FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Stallman's dismissal of cloud computing and call for the categorical rejection of web services is puzzling in light of the potential opportunities created by web technologies and the innovative work that is being done by software freedom advocates to bring openness to the web. Stallman should be using his visibility to promote adoption of the principles embodied in the Franklin Street Statement. Instead he is undermining those efforts by disingenuously dismissing the entire concept of network computing."Unfurl
Notes"The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications. Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework to help communities deal wiUnfurl
Notes"With Y!OS, weâre moving from a model in which each Yahoo! property develops much of its own technology to one where we share common data and frameworks that can be easily surfaced across multiple Yahoo! properties and off the Yahoo.com "Unfurl
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