07 on SWiK

Mozilla Re-Mix: Firefoxで表示しているページを自在に編集することができるようになるブックマークレット。

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:45:17 -0700

about:config(user.js)の設定 - 10press

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:50:42 -0700

Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3 - LinuxWorld

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:50:38 -0700

It's time to hack it.

「Firefox 3」のセキュリティ機能について:ITpro

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:49:15 -0700

Apple主導の「黒船」iPhone ソフトバンクの負担は - ITmedia News

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:55:04 -0700

何もかもがApple主導という状況

Mozilla Japan - プレスリリース - Mozilla、Firefox 3 のダウンロード数でギネス新記録を樹立

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:52:37 -0700

Mozilla Re-Mix: Firefox 3をカスタマイズする15のabout:config設定。

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:48:09 -0700

CSSVista

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:14:21 -0700

IEとFFで同時にCSSを確認しながら編集できるフリーソフト

PB Killa - Cheap Paintball Guns Invert Mini Dynasty Paintball Gear Wholesale Paintball Gear DM7 07 Ego Xball PMR Ion Smart Parts Shocker Planet Eclipse

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:06:07 -0800

Cheapest Paintball Gear On The Net PMR EGO Cheap Paintball Guns

Mozilla、ネット参加型ロックフェス「Firefox ROCK FESTIVAL '07」を開催:ニュース - CNET Japan

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:32:50 -0700

しょぼいメンツ。

ブログの執筆活動を素早くさせる40のFirefoxアドオン - 私の目から見たネットと人間

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:32:20 -0700

WebJunction Pathfinder: Open Source Solutions for Libraries

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:04:45 -0700

yohgaki's blog - Flashもブロック対象の時期か...

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:05:24 -0700

Firefoxのアドレスバー履歴検索を賢くする拡張機能「Autocomplete Manager」:phpspot開発日誌

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:32:46 -0700

Open Tech Press | オススメFirefox拡張

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 22:31:16 -0700

ITmedia エンタープライズ：Firefoxを鍛え直せ！　フォクすけブートキャンプ：第1日目：1分でFirefoxをしなやかに――WellRounded

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:31:54 -0700

Google Operating System: Persistent Queries

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:41:36 -0700

複数の検索エンジンで検索

WebデザイナーのためのFirefoxエクステンション20個:phpspot開発日誌

Mon, 07 May 2007 06:36:32 -0700

Webデザイナー必須のエクステンションだそうです

Disney's Vista Gadget Points To Future Of Marketing Widgets

Wed, 02 May 2007 12:49:12 -0700

All the buzz here at Microsoft MIX in Vegas is rightly about Silverlight, but one other impressive demo I came across was a Vista gadget (a.k.a. widget) for Disney. Entertainment and Devices Division President Robbie Bach was on the main stage yesterday, talking about marketing Microsoft's connected entertainment services. One of the case studies wheeled out was Disney, which - as The Seattle Times reports - is working with Microsoft and large OEMs selling computers in China to install a software gadget on new PC desktops. The gadget features content meant to attract people to the company's Hong Kong theme park. Bach pointed out that Vista's gadgets (mini web apps that run on your desktop) are a way for brands such as Disney to establish a presence on "some of the most valuable real estate in the home" - i.e. the PC desktop. The Seattle Times goes on:

"The Disney gadget is aimed at an emerging Chinese middle class that does not have the history with the Disney brand that Americans do, said Edward Kummer, a Disney executive in charge of online promotions of the company's parks and resorts.

The gadget is constantly being updated via RSS feeds with news about the theme park and also includes long-format video, itinerary planning tools and other interactive content.

"This is effectively having a Disney application on the PC," Bach said.

No details were provided about the size of the application, the computing resources it uses or whether consumers could remove these branded gadgets."

There is a video of the Disney talk during Bach's presentation, up on the Visit MIX07 site. I've taken a few (rough) screenshots of the Disney gadget from the video, because I think its interactivity and rich real-time data (including video) is a great example of how widgets/gadgets will evolve over the next couple of years. I also expect this kind of interactivity and multimedia in widgets that run in the browser (e.g. Microsoft's own live.com widget platform).

Note that I haven't yet seen the Disney gadget on the Web, so if anyone has a link to it -- please note in the comments.

Lunch With Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie: Browsers, Live.com, Microsoft's Web Strategy

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:50:17 -0700

I was fortunate enough to be invited to a blogger lunch with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and General Manager of Client and Web Platform & Tools Scott Guthrie. The discussion was mostly developer focused, but right at the end I managed to get a question in about Microsoft's strategy for IE and live.com. I asked Ray what is Microsoft's vision for Live.com and more generally, their IE browser, given that Firefox, Maxthon and other browsers are on the road to becoming "information brokers" - which is the term used by Mozilla to describe the upcoming Firefox 3. The background to this question is that widgets, web services and RSS feeds are now key components of the Web ecosystem, so the browser has a lot of potential to broker all of these services (note: unfortunately I didn't ask the question as elegantly as I just wrote it!).

Ray's answer was that Microsoft is creating a platform for developers to build componentized things like widgets and other web services, but he wasn't able to elaborate on IE's future role in this growing ecosystem - because IE's development plans in that respect are still under wraps. He acknowledged that Firefox is becoming an information broker, saying that this is part of a continued trend in browsers where they are becoming more interactive and writeable. He noted that initially browsers were read-only, but browsers nowadays are able to be written to as well. He also discussed the general trend of componentization, which is basically what is happening with widgets and web services. He said that IE4 was a componentized browser, so this has been a trend for a while in browsers.

Ray also remarked that live.com was at first just a platform for gadgets (a.k.a. widgets), but after it was released they found that live.com's interface was too confusing for ordinary users. So although power users love live.com, they are working at making live.com more of a user-friendly portal than just a loose collection of gadgets/widgets.

Just before the lunch, Ray and Scott were on the main stage being interviewed by Michael Arrington. Dan Farber has a great write-up of that discussion, which discusses Web OS and office software amongst other things.

Scott, Ray, Mike; pic by pxn8

So how is Microsoft's Web Strategy panning out?

From Mike's Q&A and my own lunch with Ray and Scott, I have gotten a better sense of Ray Ozzie's style as Chief Software Architect - the role he took over from Bill Gates last June. Ray Ozzie obviously has a superb handle on technology trends and his 'services vision' has become nicely refined over the past year or so. So I'm impressed by that, although I wish he'd told me specific details about IE's future today at lunch ;-)

Also what we're seeing at MIX this year is that the end products are beginning to show evidence of Ozzie's strategic leadership - e.g. we saw today that Silverlight is a comprehensive web development platform covering the browser and desktop. I haven't mentioned Scott Guthrie much in this post (mainly because his job is to talk specifically to developers, in their language, so a lot of what he says goes over my head!). But the demos of Silverlight-produced apps this morning, which Guthrie compered, were impressive and show that the services strategy coming from Ozzie is starting to show through now in Microsoft's products.

There's a lot to wrap my head around at this conference, but I'll be back later with more coverage.

Update: Ryan Stewart was at the lunch too and his write-up is up now.

Ray Ozzie Keynote at MIX, Las Vegas

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:50:56 -0700

I'm at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, courtesy of Microsoft New Zealand. Ray Ozzie has just completed his keynote speech, in which he delivered a more refined version of his 'integrated Web/Desktop' vision. He talked about how the best solutions are "integrated solutions", meaning integrated Web, desktop and mobile. He talked about RIAs and devices, and noted that in this era SAAS now means "software *and* a service". He went on to say that web apps today and tomorrow are complicated, fragmented. He also noted the richness of all the possible delivery platforms in this era.

Next Ray Ozzie outlined two types of web apps - what he calls "Universal Web" apps, meaning ajax, html, browser based apps. Then he discussed "Experience First" apps - xbox, mobile, pc desktop apps. He pointed out that "the most sucessful solutions have an element each of universal web and experience first".

Ray said that a common design pattern has emerged for this new era of desktop/web/mobile apps - desktop for richness, browser for tagging and other collaboration/community features, mobile for location-specific information.

Ray said that this "brings together the best of the web, best of the desktop and best of the device - using the service as a hub". He also noted that to build these apps, developers and designers can use all kinds of platforms - some of them not Microsoft's. He may've been referring to Adobe Apollo, for example. (Incidentally, I visited Adobe's HQ last week and there is a post on that coming soon).

Silverlight Extended

Next up, Ray Ozzie announced some major upgrades to the Silverlight product, which was first announced a couple of weeks ago. There are 3 main parts to Silverlight now, said Ozzie.

1) Video

Silverlight is targeted purely at the universal web - it's a cross platform runtime for video delivery. This was the part that was announced two weeks ago.

2) .NET

The big news today is that Microsoft is bringing Silverlight into the .NET environment, making it a full-fledged RIA deployment platform. Ray referred to Silverlight as a "first class .net runtime environment" and noted that "Silverlight brings .net to the universal web".

Also, Microsoft is officially shipping Expression Studio today.

In other news, there are new APIs and html-based controls being released - for Live contacts, virtual earth, photos within Spaces, search.

Ray then showed Photosynth, a new photo app that has an excellent zooming feature - which has also been added to Silverlight.

3) Silverlight Streaming

The third part of the story is streaming, which allows developers to post Silverlight apps to Microsoft's storage service in the cloud. This essentially enables things like video streaming, via the browser.

Overall, Ray referred to Silverlight as a "foundational technology" which is now a key part of Microsoft's web development platform.

Greasemonkey用ユーザースクリプト - Ms. Yellowaliened

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 09:06:28 -0700

ダウンロード

UNL Admissions | Real Nebraska

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:13:54 -0800

Björn Höhrmann: Leaving W3C QA Dev

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:24:38 -0700

Warum Björn aussteigt.

podOmatic Podcast Portal: Create, Find, Share Podcasts!

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:35:18 -0700

Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:34:02 -0700

Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:30:20 -0700

podOmatic Podcast Portal: Create, Find, Share Podcasts!

Tue, 16 May 2006 19:24:02 -0700

07 on SWiK

Mozilla Re-Mix: Firefoxで表示しているページを自在に編集することができるようになるブックマークレット。

about:config(user.js)の設定 - 10press

Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3 - LinuxWorld

「Firefox 3」のセキュリティ機能について:ITpro

Apple主導の「黒船」iPhone ソフトバンクの負担は - ITmedia News

Mozilla Japan - プレスリリース - Mozilla、Firefox 3 のダウンロード数でギネス新記録を樹立

Mozilla Re-Mix: Firefox 3をカスタマイズする15のabout:config設定。

CSSVista

PB Killa - Cheap Paintball Guns Invert Mini Dynasty Paintball Gear Wholesale Paintball Gear DM7 07 Ego Xball PMR Ion Smart Parts Shocker Planet Eclipse

Mozilla、ネット参加型ロックフェス「Firefox ROCK FESTIVAL '07」を開催:ニュース - CNET Japan

ブログの執筆活動を素早くさせる40のFirefoxアドオン - 私の目から見たネットと人間

WebJunction Pathfinder: Open Source Solutions for Libraries

yohgaki's blog - Flashもブロック対象の時期か...

Firefoxのアドレスバー履歴検索を賢くする拡張機能「Autocomplete Manager」:phpspot開発日誌

Open Tech Press | オススメFirefox拡張

ITmedia エンタープライズ：Firefoxを鍛え直せ！ フォクすけブートキャンプ：第1日目：1分でFirefoxをしなやかに――WellRounded

Google Operating System: Persistent Queries

WebデザイナーのためのFirefoxエクステンション20個:phpspot開発日誌

Disney's Vista Gadget Points To Future Of Marketing Widgets

Lunch With Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie: Browsers, Live.com, Microsoft's Web Strategy

So how is Microsoft's Web Strategy panning out?

Ray Ozzie Keynote at MIX, Las Vegas

Silverlight Extended

Greasemonkey用ユーザースクリプト - Ms. Yellowaliened

UNL Admissions | Real Nebraska

Björn Höhrmann: Leaving W3C QA Dev

podOmatic Podcast Portal: Create, Find, Share Podcasts!

Songbirdnest.com | Songbird Media Player

Moodle - A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning

podOmatic Podcast Portal: Create, Find, Share Podcasts!

ITmedia エンタープライズ：Firefoxを鍛え直せ！　フォクすけブートキャンプ：第1日目：1分でFirefoxをしなやかに――WellRounded