Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work

As with all Labs experiments, Jetpack is an open source project and everyone is welcome to participate in its design, development and testing.

The add-ons community for Firefox is arguably one of the largest with 12,000 add-ons.

Labels: mashup, mozilla, opensource

Happy Cog is implementing the redesign of the Mozilla site, the 3 different concepts are available on site redesignmozilla.org

Labels: design, mozilla

Mozilla Labs has recently released a major update of Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension and an experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. It's a Firefox extension, which means it works on Macs, Windows, and Linux...

https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/

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Labels: communication, firefox, mashup, mozilla, tip, web_2.0

The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

The new build includes "support for the HTML 5 video element" and the ability to "drag and drop tabs between browser windows." ComputerWorld is running a related story about benchmarks shown by Mozilla's Brendan Eich which indicate that Firefox 3.1 will run Javascript faster than Chrome.

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 now available for download

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FIREFOX 3.1 ACCELERATES JAVASCRIPT APPS WITH NEW FEATURE - TRACEMONKEY

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Labels: browser, development, firefox, javascript, mozilla

According to WebWare,

JavaScript has been very broadly used to add pizzazz or flexibility to Web pages over the years, but in recent years, it's also become the plumbing for many rich Internet applications....

-> Now Mozilla hopes to change the balance of power in JavaScript's favor with TraceMonkey, a new feature in firefox 3.1.

Summit2008/Sessions/Proposals/Tracing and JavaScript performance

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Labels: firefox, javascript, mozilla, web_2.0

Pencil is a free and opensource tool, released under the GPL version 2, for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use. it makes use of “SVG support in Firefox 3 to implement the shape rendering.

Pencil is also nominated for Mozilla's firefox3 add-ons contest, Extend Firefox 3.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8487

developer is dương thành an: http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/

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Labels: development, firefox, gadgets, mozilla, opensource, utilities, web_2.0

ScrnShots is a web project by Orange Peel Media, to share screenshots of web and screen based design. its a kind of social software with a Firefox Plugin in the very near future...



http://scrnshots.com
http://blog.scrnshots.com


search more social software

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Labels: browser, collaboration, design, firefox, mozilla, networking, photo, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps

The intents of annotation of webpages were to share knowledge information and to encourage a way of free speech on the internet...
please read also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex

Most of these application offer browser plugin to share your annotations and bookmarks friendly.
These services use flash- or javascript-based application to grab and cache the ressource to modify and save it for you.




My Nominates are:

1. Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. check out the FireFox add-on and bookmarklet.

2. Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community, hot in there community today eg.: Educational Benefits Of Social Networking Sites Uncovered

3. With fleck.com you can save all your interesting websites online in one place.

4. Mento (new!!) is for sharing links with friends: Smarter than email overload, more permanent than IM, and always just one click away...

5. ShiftSpace is an open source layer above any website. It seeks to expand the creative possibilities currently provided through the web...

6. Write Stickis on any web page. Read what your crowd of friends and bloggers have written right there...

7. With Trailfire you find what you want on the web in an entirely new way. Follow trails of web pages and discover new ideas, Discover trails

8. kwout is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser.

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