Jetpack for Learning” Design Challenge Winners Announced at SXSW : The Mozilla Blog

“Jetpack for Learning” Design Challenge Winners Announced at SXSW :: The Mozilla Blog

“Jetpack for Learning” Design Challenge Winners Announced at SXSW
Posted by Erica Jostedt

March 14th, 2010 · Mozilla Labs, Mozilla News

Editor’s note: On March 13, Mozilla Labs announced the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge winners at the the Mozilla SXSW Happy Hour. For more details, check out Aza Raskin’s announcement on the Mozilla Labs blog, reposted below:

Three projects of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge were awarded special prizes at the Mozilla SXSW party today. Ten projects already selected as Design Challenge winners participated in a design camp in Austin, TX over the past three days. Today three of these projects were chosen for special awards: ClozeFox was selected as “best use case”; the project leader of Mupple received the prize for “sharing knowledge with others”; Expression Widgets was chosen as the “best web hack”. You can find more information about them and download all Jetpacks-based add-ons from the Design Challenge wiki.

Google launches Chrome - A new open source web browser

This is going to be interesting! One of the most innovative and wealthiest technology companies in the world has developed a new open source web browser called Google Chrome that they will be releasing to the public for Beta use on Sept 2nd (UPDATE!! Download it here). This is some pretty big news as far as I am concerned as I believe a web-browser environment will replace the desktop environment as the primary environment for computing in the future. We already spend so much time on our web-browsers watching videos, managing stocks, banking, buying, designing, taking online classes, etc that as bandwidth increases we may be able to do even more online. It will be interesting to see what this browser is like. I must confess it will take an incredibly amazing tool to pull me away from Firefox 3 (FF3). One of the critical components to any successful open source endeavor is the community of support for the technology and FF3 has a HUGE community that continues to build and optimize the browser. Will there be enough community support for Chrome? Will they be able to make add-ons for everything under the sun like FF3. Will Chrome be compatible with FF3 plugins? Even as I write this blog, I am using the FF3 add-on Scribefire to write this directly in my browser from the Google Blog page. I look forward to testing out the browser tomorrow and offering my feedback.

Official Google Blog: A fresh take on the browser

A fresh take on the browser
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM
At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit "send" a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome. As we believe in access to information for everyone, we've now made the comic publicly available -- you can find it here. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

Firefox Guinness World Record is Official

We’re official! :: The Mozilla Blog

The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record — each and every one of you! Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that we’ve officially achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.” From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3!

Using ScribeFire to fire up TerenceOnline!

I just installed the firefox extension ScribeFire, which will allow me to write TerenceOnline blog posts directly from my Firefox web browser. This should make blogging more efficient and effective for me. It has a "blog this page" feature built into the browser that allows me to quickly and seamlessly make a blog entry about a web-page I am visiting. The Firefox web-browser is the killer app to get the most out of the internet and ScribeFire is just another tool in the FireFox arsenal to make it that much sweeter. If you are a blogger and want increase your production, give ScribeFire a try. This is my first post using the tool so hopefully it works well.

ScribeFire - Fire Up Your Blogging!

I help set a world record by downloading Firefox 3: the greatest web browser

Check out this cool certificate I got from Firefox for helping them set a world record for the most downloads of a software app in one day. Firefox 3 is awesome and has tons of add-ons that you can download to make your browsing experience excellent. Plus, since it is open source, everything is free so don't worry about forking over tons of money. I think it is time for people to put their Internet Explorer and Safari browsers to bed. But remember, the browser is only awesome if you know how to use it, so do some research on it and start customizing it to your needs. I'll do some jing videos in the future of some cool add-ons that I use with Firefox.