Posts Tagged With: interview
· July 23, 2008 at 2:00 pm · Firefox News
The team over at Wired have posted a very interesting article with Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly about a number of topics. One of the topics that came up was iPhone and the easy somebody like Mozilla would have developing for it:
Wired: Are you going to develop a version of Firefox for the iPhone?
Lilly: No. Apple makes it too hard. They say it’s because of technical issues — they don’t want outsiders to disrupt the user experience. That’s a business argument masquerading as a technological argument. We’re focusing on more important stuff. The iPhone has been influential, but there’s not that many of them. We’re part of the LiMo Foundation — Linux on Mobile. The Razr V2 is a LiMo phone, and you’ll see more in the next year or so.
I do understand Apple’s need to “control the experience” with the iPhone, and hey… who knows, this could really open some doors for other phones and mobile devices. Also Apple isn’t going to want to take away from Safari which for me as a Windows user has not been much than bundle-ware with iTunes.
Check out the full interview with Lilly: The Mozilla CEO on His Firefox Strategy, His Google Gambit, and Working With Apple
· February 12, 2008 at 11:07 am · Entertainment
Just ran across this interview with Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly on the GigaOM Show over at Revision3.com. Well worth checking into and watching to hear a little more from one of the head honchos.
· February 4, 2008 at 5:00 am · Interviews
Me.dium is one of those unique Firefox addons that delivers a service that none so far have been able to duplicate. Giving you a way to chat live with other people on the same page - the idea is simple, yet brilliant. I recently had the chance to get a quick interview in with David Mandell the founder and VP of Marketing at Me.dium.
Does it make you feel nervous at all that your success is so tied into the success of addons for the browser? You have clients for both Firefox and Internet Explorer, but what if addons sometime become “not so cool”.
Sure, industry change always makes us nervous. The key is to continually provide enough value for the user that cool transforms into indispensable. We are trying to provide a tremendous amount of information in a very small space, so there is always the possibility of looking at other ways to display the value, but at this point, the experience of surfing with your friends is so tied to where you are on the Internet, that a marriage between the browser and Me.dium makes sense.
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· January 16, 2008 at 7:16 am · Firefox Usability, Interviews
I think too often the extensions and themes in the Mozilla realm might get more attention than the people behind them. With that said, I want to shed a little light on the people who make these things happen from both inside and outside of Mozilla. So where to start? How about with Wladimir Palant - the creator of Adblock Plus.
What is the difference between Adblock and Adblock Plus?
Well, usually that’s the point where I send people to the FAQ: http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#adblock
Adblock is very outdated, it hasn’t been updated for a while. There is a bunch of ways that web sites can detect Adblock, there is also a bunch of ways that web sites can prevent their ads from being blocked - no such security holes exist in Adblock Plus to my knowledge.
Adblock is full of UI inconsistencies, I tried to eliminate those as much as possible. One extremely important Adblock Plus feature is filter subscriptions - you can subscribe to a filter list maintained by somebody else and just forget about the ads. In Adblock you have to use Filterset.G Updater if you don’t want to write the filters yourself - not the perfect choice if compared to some subscriptions available for Adblock Plus. Finally, I put lots of effort into making Adblock Plus efficient and into avoiding website breakage - both points that were never considered in Adblock development.
That’s only the big differences I can give you off the top of my head.
Have you ever been approached by any of the advertising businesses offering to pay you briefcases full of money to stop what your doing?
LOL - No, I am not that important yet, the advertising industry cares very little about Adblock Plus. It is mostly owners of small websites who care - and suspect that they would earn millions if it weren’t for Adblock Plus. But those would never pay.
How much of your daily life has Adblock Plus taken over? Do you have time for other projects and work or is it Adblock on your mind 24/7?
I have my day job as well, you know? :)
I don’t have any constant amount of time per day that I spend on Adblock Plus. Sometimes I actually used to spend a few days on Adblock Plus only though mostly it wasn’t more than 2-3 hours per day. Recently however other things have taken over so that now I only spend maybe 4 hours on Adblock Plus per week - barely enough to maintain the project yet not enough to develop it further. I hope that I will have more time for it again soon.
As far as development goes, have you done all that can be done or are you still looking at improvements that can be made to the product for future releases?
I haven’t even started. There is very much that can be done. Something that I hope to see happen in the nearest future is a community-driven filter database that will allow classification of filters, and that in turn should allow users to choose which types of filters they want to subscribe to (e.g. graphical ads but not text ads). Something else that is in discussion is a set of rules for “acceptable advertising” and the ways how a “certification” of ad servers according to these rules can work - users would be able to configure Adblock Plus to not block these ads then.
What is the best way for normal everyday users to help with the development of Adblock Plus?
Testing Adblock Plus (also development builds) and reporting bugs is something where I can never get enough help. In particular testing in less popular applications (Songbird, K-Meleon etc) is where we have issues right now. Helping other users (forums) is another area where everybody can contribute.
I have to point to the FAQ here again:
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#contribute
I want to thank Wladimir Palant for taking time out to talk with me here, and please be sure to check out Adblock Plus if you haven’t done so already. I think if there was an extention hall of fame for Firefox - Wladimir’s contribution would definitely belong.
· February 5, 2007 at 7:56 am · Firefox News
Here is an interesting story that I found from Mozilla Links. Mozilla + Podcast = Good Stuff.
The Mozilla Digital Memory Bank has announced the launch of a new weekly podcast featuring snippets from the memory bank’s audio content.
Organized a few years ago by the Center for History and New Media, the MDMB “is a permanent, open, peer-produced digital archive of Mozilla history” that “collects and permanently preserves digital texts, images, audio, video, personal narratives, and oral histories related to Mozilla, its products, and its community of developers, testers, and users”.
The first one launched, an interview with Ben Goodger, I have not had the pleasure of listening to yet, but I have a feeling it should be interesting.
· December 14, 2006 at 5:02 am · Firefox News
Asa is a very interesting guy. I have to thank him somewhat for the popularity of Firefox Facts and him making mention of it on his blog (as well as giving me feedback on the eBook). Check out this interview with him as he discusses the new commercials that Mozilla is going to be pushing out to a TV near you - sometime soon.
Later today Firefox will begin broadcasting, for the first time, four “fan-produced” commercials on prime time television. Initially the ads will only run in the San Francisco and Boston regions, but this will be expanded over time.
The 4 video ads are a sampling of approximately 300 clips which were submitted to Mozilla’s Firefox Flicks program. The theme of the ads is that Firefox is “the safest, fastest and most enjoyable way to experience the Web.” The ads are also partly sponsored by Firefox fans - and Mozilla will insert the names of those sponsors at the end of each commercial.
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· November 14, 2006 at 4:27 am · Firefox News, General Posts
Over at Slashdot they have an interview with Chris Beard of Mozilla. Out of all the Firefox 2 hype interviews and articles, this one might be one of the best. Here is just one example:
How was the cake from MS?
Chris: It was a nice surprise actually, and we think it’s great that Microsoft is taking an interest in browser development again. Of course there wasn’t nearly enough of it to go around since there are thousands of people worldwide working together to make Firefox possible, but those of us at the Mountain View office made sure to enjoy it for everybody :) .
+ Read the Entire Interview With Chris Beard of Firefox!
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