http://autological.wordpress.com ...insights, opinions and more, in plain english... Thu, 08 May 2008 17:32:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week Tristan was in London talking at Internet World in London, he keynoted there on "The dangers of the proprietary web - Future of Internet and Open Source". Whilst in the UK, where it poured incessantly the whole time, Tristan was able to meet blogger legend Rory Cellan-Jones. Rory ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/tristan-firefox-3-and-the-bbcs-dotlife-blog/ Last Thursday I had the great pleasure of meeting Steve Lee (more on Steve in the next posts) - one of Web accessibility's most passionate advocates I have met, and a great fan of Mozilla to boot! Steve was in London attending Accessibility 2.0, which was organized by Ability Net. ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/accessibilitynot-everyone-has-the-same-experience-of-the-web/ Nice write up on Web Worker Daily about building online communities: http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/27/building-online-community-brick-by-virtual-brick/ Aliza Sherman's points are basic to many of us who have been working with online communities for some time - but I do appreciate her words of wisdom. As the title of the article states... "Building Online Community Brick by ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/building-online-communities/ It was interesting to see a blog such as VentureBeat write about Firefox's market share growth in Europe last Friday. (Now hovering around 30% across the EU on average). In my opinion the coverage posted by VentureBeat - whose focus is usually "...news and information about private companies and the ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/venturebeat-writes-on-firefox-marketshare-growth/ What an amazing 7 days its been for Firefox... Last Friday Gandalf brought to our attention the latest Gemius browser market figures for Hungary. We were delighted to see Firefox 2 now at the top of the 'browser version' list - with more users than IE 6 and more than IE7. ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/firefox-market-share-climbs-in-europe/ Consumer Press Meetings in Madrid This week has been a busy week for Tristan and Anne-Julie. They headed to Spain on Monday afternoon, and met with our Mozilla community in Madrid on Monday evening. An early start saw them meeting with some very high-level press publications. It was the start of ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/whats-going-on-in-europe-this-week/ Today, Jack Schofield - a legend in UK tech journalism and founder of The Guardian's technology section wrote about Mozilla's 10 year anniversary, citing further notes he made during the February interview he conducted with Mitchell Baker - Mozilla Corporations and Foundation chairperson (read Feb article: "Wrangling the web into ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/the-guardian-10-years-of-mozilla/ Some of you have been asking a lot of questions about the t-shirt contest and if/when they will be able to buy them. I've been asking our colleague Tara Shahian who helped manage the contest and she's given us some early feedback. The dates could move, and stuff change - ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/firefox-t-shirt-update-your-questions/ The Firefox 3 T-shirt design contest has finished, and we’re excited to announce the winners! Congratulations Tracie Andrews from the UK. Here's her wining design which will be featured in the Mozilla Store as the official Firefox 3 T-shirt: The runners up were Kevin Weagle, Ali Riyaz, Mathew Anderson, and ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/firefox-3-t-shirt-design-contest-winners/ Late last week and early this, we've seen Comscore release some interesting figures about Mozilla's growth in 3 major EU locales. According to Comscore's press releases for Feb 2008 - Mozilla grew by 48% in the UK - http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2124 By 91% in Germany breaking into top 20 most visited sites in DE - ... http://autological.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/comscore-reports-mozilla-gaining-further-ground-in-europe/