Mozilla is working on technology that will allow PDF documents to be rendered within the browser, rather than utilizing a browser plug-in or an external app to open them. On his blog, Mozilla researcher Andreas Gal has described the project to build a PDF reader in HTML5 and JavaScript. Typically, PDFs are rendered in...
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You might remember back in April when Facebook introduced its Send button. The idea was that you could use it to send a link or story (or just about any other content) to any of your Facebook friends or an email address without having to publicly “Like” it. The advantage of the system is...
Gay Girl in Damascus a straight man in Scotland. When the “cousin” of blogger “Amina Abdallah Arraf” reported her abduction, people around the world were upset. This lesbian, half-American Syrian blogger seemed like someone they could relate to. Soon, questions arose and, in part due to the efforts of NPR’s Andy Carvin, it came...
Mozilla is always experimenting with how content is searched and discovered in Firefox. The Prospector series within Mozilla Labs has released a new experimental feature today called Predictive NewTab to supplement the fixed list of top sites presented to users when they open a new browser tab in Firefox. The idea is to use...
“Let’s be clear – it is one thing to be inspired by Zynga games, but it is entirely different to copy all of our key product features, product strategy, branding, mission statement and employee benefits lock, stock and barrel. We welcome Vostu into the arena of social games, but blatant infringement of our creative...
It’s Thursday, Thursday, and Rebecca Black’s memetastic “Friday” video is no longer available on YouTube due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black apparently. It’s not clear what exactly happened to the video, which at its height had 167,370,534 views off of the ARK Music Factory account. Earlier this week it seemed like the...
Edit Note: this column originally appeared on the Namesake blog, but is reprinted in full here. This morning I awoke to an email newsletter in my inbox from Om Malik. The title of his post said it all, “Say hello to the alive web!” For the past year I’ve been thinking deeply about this...