Archive for May, 2008

What do Thunderbird extension developers need?

One of the goals for Thunderbird 3 is to be a much better platform for which to develop add-ons.
We’re planning and doing some in-product and in-codebase work to that end, including documenting APIs (shocking, I know), bundling STEEL, which should make it easy to do 80% of what add-on authors want to do without resorting [...]

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Thunderbird is PC World’s 43rd best product in 2008

PC World’ s editors have selected Mozilla Thunderbird as one of “The 100 Best Products of 2008 Award” winners, specifically in the 43rd position, in between the Rock Band controllers and the Dell XPS 420 (???).
That’s a weird and fascinating list. I’m not a huge fan of this kind of list in general. [...]

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Open source networked interactive whiteboards?

If you’ve never seen Johnny Lee’s videos explaining how he uses cheap Wii remotes to do amazing things, check out the TED video, or his home page.
Now after watching that video, I snuck into the ActiveState game room, and poked around with the wiimotes & projector there. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on [...]

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Twitter Thoughts

So, this twitter thing. Or maybe, I should say, this twitter category, in which I’ll lump Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed, Facebook status updates, etc.
What to think of it?
First, an admission: I feel like I don’t yet know what I’m talking about, in the sense that I don’t feel the value proposition yet the [...]

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