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Interview: Dan Mills, Lead for Mozilla Weave

Dan Mills, Lead Engineer of Mozilla Labs’ Weave sat down with me for a brief chat. In it he talks about what Weave is, what it’s good for, how it ties in with Firefox Mobile, when it will be in users hands, and what you can do to help.


Dan Mills on Mozilla Weave

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Mozilla Labs in Europe. Join us!

Mozilla Labs will be making its way to Europe next week to meet with community members, hackers, bloggers, media types, and general feasance doers. We’ll be spending time in London, Berlin, and Barcelona. We’ll be having Labs nights, Hack sessions, or drinks in each of the cities. They are open to everyone, so we hope [...]

Weave and Ubiquity This Week

Jono DiCarlo of Mozilla Labs explains what’s up with Weave this week, and the exciting changes coming in Ubiquity with “Overlord” verbs. Jono DiCarlo: Ubiquity and Weave

Intensely Personal Browsers and Mozilla Labs’ Personas

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Joining Mozilla

Software is too frustrating. There are a lot of choices in today’s computing world — what’s worse, most of them are too complicated. Hundreds of features, dozens of user preferences, unresponsive programs, inscrutable error messages, crowded toolbars, merciless disrespect for the safety of your data; all of these are problems that plague most of today’s [...]

Mozilla Labs Geode: Follow up

On Tuesday, we launched Mozilla Labs Geode. It’s had great response, and we’ve seen websites embracing the standards-based geolocation all across the web. There’s also been a bit of confusion about how Geode + Firefox 3.0 is related to what’s coming up in Firefox 3.1, as well as why location is a useful thing to [...]

TaskFox Mouse: Iteration 0

Two of TaskFox's goals are to: Work with existing workflows, not against them, and to help people complete tasks rather than be forced to laboriously jump through hoops. We've been looking at what TaskFox looks like in the URL bar. It's an interfa

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Pete

Will Mozilla host all this data? Seems like, if this gets big, you’ll have to make money off it somehow to cover bandwidth and storage costs.

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Dan Mills

Pete,

Mozilla will be hosting the data, or at least part of it. We have been focusing on the user experience and not so much on monetizing, but you’re right that we will want to look at that at some point.

Nothing is off the table, but as I said, user experience and user privacy and control are paramount to us. Back when we introduced Weave we put together some basic principles, they are worth looking at again as whatever we do will fall under those guidelines:

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/

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Pete

Ok, cross that bridge when you get there I guess. I like the guidelines.

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Called an interface guru by publications like Wired and Fast Company, Aza is the co-founder of Massive Health, and was until recently Creative Lead for Firefox. Previously, he was a founding member of Mozilla Labs. Aza gave his first talk on user interface at age 10 and got hooked. At 17, he was talking and consulting internationally. Aza has founded and sold two companies, including Songza.com, a minimalist music search engine that had over a million song plays in its first week. He also creates modular cardboard furniture called Bloxes. In another life, Aza has done Dark Matter research at both Tokyo University and the University of Chicago, from where he graduated with honors in math and physics
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