Facebook app or Firefox plug-in?
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Which is a more interesting platform -- Facebook or Firefox? This was a topic of conversation at the Web 2.0 Summit last week in SF, not on stage, but in a LobbyConversation between myself and venture capitalist Bijan Sabet. Bijan Sabet: "I like that Firefox developers don't have to live in a world where they lie awake at night worried that the platform company is going to make life hard for them." What do you think??
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 24  /PRNewswire/ -- Facebook f8 Event -- Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive today announced two political applications built on Facebook Platform, a development platform that enables companies to integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users.
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With version 1.0 on the horizon, Firefox developers are preparing an ambitious marketing campaign to kickoff the browser's launch: a full-page advertisement in The New York Times. The ad will include the names of everyone who donates $30 USD ($10 for students), and the proceeds will help support Firefox 1.0 launch activities. By offering a secure, open source alternative to Internet Explorer, Firefox may finally break the stranglehold Microsoft has long had on the Web browser. Visit Spread Firefox to contribute.
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As the number of downloads of Mozilla Foundation&#39;s open source browser Firefox 1.0 continues to soar (4.7 hits by Nov. 19), people are asking what will established browsers do in response?
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To be, or not to be: Now Facebook users can decide.
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BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. announced Wednesday it has launched software that will make it easier for Facebook users to use the popular social networking site.
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The HowTo Forge website has this new tutorial posted today taking an extensive look (complete with tons of screenshots and code along the way) on how to create a Facebook RSS reader to add to your blog of choice.   This guide shows how you can build an RSS feed reader application for the social network Facebook that will display your blog's/web site's RSS feed on the profile pages of Facebook users (that have installed the RSS feed reader application). Each item of the RSS feed will have a Share button so that people can share the story with their friends, and the application will have an Invite link so that people can invite up to ten friends at once to also install this feed reader application.   They use PHP5's functionality to make building the reader simple and take advantage of Facebook's simple application system to make the reader. You can stop after the first few steps of the tutorial and have a working application, but they take it further. They show how to make customizations to the reader, making the feed auto-update, creating an icon for the app and make an invite page.
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Facebook.com took the wraps off  on Thursday of its highly anticipated makeover from a  members-only club into what it hopes can become a kind of  software operating system for Internet media of all sorts.
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No need to be jealous of Firefox's plug-ins, because you can get cool add-ins for IE that do everything from blocking annoying ads to grabbing videos.
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Thumbplay jumps on the social networking bandwagon with unlimited storage for user-generated content. It's also planning two sweet-looking Facebook apps for uploading and sharing images between Thumbplay, Facebook, and your phone.
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Facebook.com on Thursday took the  wraps off its highly anticipated makeover from a members-only  club into what it hopes can allow it to become a software  operating system for all sorts of Internet media.
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Preston Gralla reveals how to tweak, hack and bend Firefox to your will using a customization file, the about:config command and free add-ons.
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ezberry writes &quot;After releasing version 1.0 of Firefox, what&#39;s ahead for the Mozilla Foundation and the venerable Firefox browser?
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The New York Times has integrated Social News and Media sharing by adding &#8220;Digg This&#8221;, Facebook, and Newsvine (big props for Newsvine here) sharing buttons on their news stories. From Natali Del Conte at TechCrunch: &#8220;Although you could always manually add The Times stories to news sharing sites such as Digg and Newsvine before, the capability to [...]
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The publicity avalanche surrounding FireFox continues unabated. News.com profiles developers at the forefront of the FireFox developer movement and explains how some crafty developers are taking advantage
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(InfoWorld) - If the Firefox browser were a car, it would be in the garage right now being souped up by an anxious group of gearheads. When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. Mozilla released the second alpha version of Firefox 3.0 earlier this month. While the final feature set hasn't been determined, Firefox 3.0 will also contain elements for its 4.0 release and beyond, said Mike Schroepfer, vice president for engineering for Mozilla, during a stop in London on Tuesday. The browser is due out in the second half of the year. "What we're trying to do with all of these things is lay the foundation," Schroepfer said. Perhaps most exciting could be Firefox's ability to support writing an e-mail in, for example, Gmail while offline, with the data sent later when a user is connected to the Internet again. Ultimately, Mozilla engineers are aiming for an integration between the browser and Web-based services that is as smooth-running as a desktop application, Schroepfer said. So far, engineers have made Firefox work with Zimbra, an open-source e-mail, messaging, and VoIP application. With a bit of code from GoogleÂ and Microsoft, it would be possible to integrate with Gmail and Hotmail and other e-mail services. To do offline support, engineers have overcome the hurdle of how to store data locally on the computer, Schroepfer said. The feature will make it into Firefox 3.0, although the user interface is still under development, he said. Other changes could come to the bookmarks and history features,Â which have seen relatively little innovation, he said. Mozilla would like to create a function where bookmarks could be automatically sorted based on popularity and frequency rather than the static presentation now. Firefox 3.0 will also have a small, embedded database -- SQL Lite -- that will eventually be used for full-text indexing of the browser's "history." Users could search for images and text and see the cached page. The feature, however, may not make it into the 3.0 release, he said. "The advantage of the database is that we can search your cache," Schroepfer said. Most importantly, Firefox has to be fast and standards-compliant, he said. Some users have complained about Firefox sucking up processing power because of add-ons or extensions, a popular aspect of Firefox where small programs can be downloaded into the browser to add new functions. But extensions sometimes tax system resources, in part because it's often part-time hobbyists doing the coding, Schroepfer said. Mozilla will soon set up a shared library of tested code that extension writers can download and use, Schroepfer said. Mozilla also relaunched its extension site, cutting back on the number of extensions listed so first-time users don't overload their browsers and dampen their experience. In a few weeks, discussion forums will also be set up for developers to exchange feedback as code writers sometimes don't know of the problems, he said. Firefox 4.0 will support the JavaScript 2 language, now under development in part by Mozilla'sÂ CTO Brendan Eich and the ECMA International standards body, Schroepfer said. The idea behind the JavaScript revamp is to make high-performance Web applications easier to write and assemble for people with less coding expertise, he said. "It's less about making it possible and more about making it easy," Schroepfer said. Â
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Blog: Cooliris' PicLens lets Firefox and Safari generate instant slide shows off Flickr, Google Images, and many other photo Web sites.