This post is a mockup about the application i’m doing for the jetpack Design challenge.

The application is called iWorld – it lets the user adds (register) to their favorite social network, mail, blogs and even RSS feeds. It is a simple interactive application.  this picture  shows how it would look like simply.

A preview of iworld

since it is going to be jetpack application, which means everything in the browser.First the user registers in any of the offered feature ( right window) and enable it , it pops a box inside the iWorld window, where the user re-sizes it and puts it where he/she likes , which makes iWorld personalize to each user. The cool feature in iWorld is the notification feature , where is uses the notification built-in function from jetpack to notify the  user if any update occurs (represented in the yellow box up-left).

This mockup image was done by  Balsamiq, amazing flash tool.

Mozilla Labs started a new open source project : Raindrop . This service uses a mini web server to pull your messages from multiple sources (Email, Twitter, Facebook…)  and organizes it in one place. What’s more, Raindrop is able to place the most important messages first in order to relieve the user of a lot of useless information. It also allows you to interact with them using your favorite web browser. Since Raindrop is an open source project, all interested people are invited to contribute to its design, development and testing by using standard open Web technologies.

Pieter Parret

Spilling over with enthusiasm as always, Aza gave a talk to a recent web developer conference in London about how he sees the future of the web browser. He takes together several strands that Mozilla Labs has been working on and ties them together into a story about how the browser can evolve into more of an intelligent user-agent. The browser really ought to bring the mountain to Mohamed, to borrow a phrase, rather than sending Mohamed to the mountain.

I’m glad he mentions Ubiquity, but I think Aza oversells it a little bit. For example, he talks about Ubiquity collecting your contacts from Facebook in order to auto-complete emails. Getting Facebook contacts is not something we currently know how to do. So I want to clarify that when Aza talks about Ubiquity in this video, a lot of the things he mentions are aspirational — “stuff we would like it to do someday” — not things that it does right now.

    Raindrop is a new exploration by the team responsible for Thunderbird to explore new ways to use open Web technologies to create useful, compelling messaging experiences.

    Raindrop’s mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend’s blog or as part of a social networking site.

   This platform will allow users to categorize and prioritize messages so communication or information of higher importance gets visible before everything else, the open-platform will encourage front-end widgets and code from 3rd party developers for greater extensibility and customization – you can preview the prototype in action in the video here

Read more at Mozilla Labs

“Raindrop’s mission: make it enjoyable to participate in conversations from people you care about, whether the conversations are in email, on twitter, a friend’s blog or as part of a social networking site.”

“Raindrop uses a mini web server to fetch your conversations from different sources (mail, twitter, RSS feeds), intelligently pulls out the important parts, and allows you to interact with them using your favorite modern web browser (Firefox, Safari or Chrome).”

Adaptive Path und Mozilla Labs haben sich überlegt, wie wir in Zukunft mit dem Web interagieren könnten. Sie haben darüber einen kleinen Film (9 min) gedreht und online gestellt.  Zu sehen sind …

• wie Informationen geteilt werden,
• neuartige Eingabegeräte,
• neuartige Benutzeroberfläche
• wie die Flut an Daten, die wir durch das Surfen hinterlassen, zu personalisierten Empfehlungen genutzt werden.

Der Film: Komplettes Video ohne Kommentare (9 min)

Der komplette Artikel: Aurora Concept

L’interface de développement Jetpack des Mozilla Labs intègre désormais les flux audio en streaming, facilitant la création d’applications VoIP pour Firefox.

En mai dernier, Mozilla Labs avait présenté Jetpack, une interface de programmation conçue pour simplifier le développement d’extensions logicielles (plug-in) pour Firefox. Une nouvelle version de cette interface vient de paraître, permettant de créer des applications de voix sur IP à partir du navigateur.

En effet, Jetpack 0.5 offre désormais la possibilité de manipuler du flux audio en mode streaming. La mouture précédente n’autorisait qu’un enregistrement du son sur disque dur. Pour l’instant, Jetpack ne sait lire que le format PCM, qui est un échantillonnage brut et non compressé. Le support du format open source Ogg/Vorbis est prévu.

Cette API de voix sur IP (VoIP) pour Firefox ouvre la voie à bon nombre d’applications, grand public ou professionnelles : chat vocal dans un forum, bouton de rappel automatique sur un site commercial, etc. Il existe déjà des plug-in VoIP pour Firefox tels que Wengophone ou Abbeyphone. Mais avec Jetpack, le développement de ce type de modules sera plus simple.

Source : 01Net

A propos de la solution TooFAX® :

TooFAX® est une solution moderne et innovante de Fax dématérialisé, vous permettant l’envoi, la réception, et la sauvegarde de Fax par Internet et ou par e-mail. Depuis votre ordinateur de bureau ou portable, votre PDA, etc, TooFAX® vous permet de faxer par mail sur les 5 continents.

TooFAX® est la synthèse entre les atouts du Fax (rapidité, valeur juridique) et l’aspect pratique de l’e-mail.

Actualité de TooFAX® :

- Site internet : http://www.toofax.com

- Site du service : http://www.service.toofax.com

- Vidéos de démonstration : http://www.video.toofax.com

- Groupe Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/toofax

- Club des utilisateurs de la solution : http://www.club.toofax.com

- Actualités en ligne des services TooFAX® :  http://twitter.com/toofax

- Blog  officiel de la gamme de services TooFAX® : http://toofax.wordpress.com/

- Base de données gratuite de n° de fax pour vos opérations de faxing : http://www.toofaxdata.com

Source : Silicon

A propos de la solution TooFAX® :

TooFAX® est une solution moderne et innovante de Fax dématérialisé, vous permettant l’envoi, la réception, et la sauvegarde de Fax par Internet et ou par e-mail. Depuis votre ordinateur de bureau ou portable, votre PDA, etc, TooFAX® vous permet de faxer par mail sur les 5 continents.

TooFAX® est la synthèse entre les atouts du Fax (rapidité, valeur juridique) et l’aspect pratique de l’e-mail.

Actualité de TooFAX® :

- Site internet : http://www.toofax.com

- Site du service : http://www.service.toofax.com

- Vidéos de démonstration : http://www.video.toofax.com

- Groupe Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/toofax

- Club des utilisateurs de la solution : http://www.club.toofax.com

- Actualités en ligne des services TooFAX® :  http://twitter.com/toofax

- Blog  officiel de la gamme de services TooFAX® : http://toofax.wordpress.com/

- Base de données gratuite de n° de fax pour vos opérations de faxing : http://www.toofaxdata.com

Mozilla Test Pilot logo

Mozilla – the organisation behind the Firefox browser – is looking for “Test Pilots” to help analyse and improve the Firefox user experience.

They have posted on their blog asking for volunteers to sign up to the program. Right now, all you have to do is download an extension and complete a very short survey. This enables you to participate in future tests that will help steer the direction of Firefox development.

To quote from their web site:

Test Pilot is a platform aimed at collecting structured user feedback from Firefox and other Mozilla Labs experiments. As a Test pilot, not only will you try before anyone else the newest features and coolest user-interface ideas, you could also learn how those test results may contribute to future designs. The goal for this platform is to encourage everyone from all skill levels to improve the Web experience by participating in these tests.

Once you install the Test Pilot add-on, you will automatically  receive notifications on upcoming and finished tests. You will have the option to quit tests or leave the platform. If the test requires you to install a new feature or product, the platform will ask for your permission.

When a product is not easy to use, don’t just wonder why it’s designed that way. Make your mark on the design and help us improve it! Join the forces, we want you!

They are careful to reassure users that their privacy will be respected, and there is further information on what data will be collected and how it will be used here.

I’ve signed up already and I see the first two tests involve Tab Browsing and use of Ubiquity. I don’t use Ubiquity at the moment, but the Tab Browsing test is interesting. I’ve copied the text from the Test Proposal below:

Introduction

Tabbed browsing is now the standard interface offered by all major web browsers, and its been argued that the browsing experience becomes difficult to manage when more than a handful of tabs are opened.

In conjunction with our recent focus on tabs and their possible reinvention (see the Summer 2009 Design Challenge: Reinventing Tabs, as well as in numerous blog posts) this study will seek to provide designers and developers additional information and insights to help inform the design of future tabbed interfaces.

Details

This will be the very first study of tabbed browsing through Test Pilot. Our goal for this study is to understand and design:

• Tab behaviors after people close a tab
• Ways to manage and navigate among a large number of tabs
• What the distribution of tabs are, wrt. how many people have open, max/min.
• How many people open new windows to group tabs
• Behavior around tab dragging and docking

As I followed the Reinventing Tabs Design Challenge closely (blogging about it here, here and here), I would certainly be interested in participating in this particular challenge. Overall though, as a sucker for anything that’s new and shiny, I’m looking forward to taking part in this experiment and am curious to see what other ideas they may be considering. I’m sold on the part where it says: “As a Test Pilot, you will not only be able to try out the newest features and user interface ideas before anyone else, but also see and learn how those results may contribute back to the product design.”

Bring it on!

Sign up for Mozilla Labs Test Pilots

A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off the addition of SVN support to Bespin (bug 493038). This required two things: One was the actual ability to choose which VCS you’re using, as it defaulted to Hg and the auto-detection was primitive and long since functional. (There were rumors that it had even been missing from the code for a while already.) But that was the relatively easy part, as it was mostly just manipulating HTML.

The (relatively) harder part was writing the code that would do the actual work with SVN. (VCS support in Bespin is powered by UVC.) A factor in this difficulty was that the backend code is written in Python, which I’m not especially familiar with. Nevertheless, the process was actually simplified by the way things are set up, because I was able to copy the Hg code and just modify to fit the SVN commands. I was able to add basic checkout, commit, and update support, as well as username/password authentication. Kevin later came in and finished up the push/commit differentiation, among other things. I believe SSH support still needs to be done, but we’re looking for a method to use to do it. (Kevin has suggested using environmental variables, as SVN does not have the ability to pass SSH details via command line, like Hg does.)

Kevin and the other Bespin folks are in the process of getting the 0.4.0 release out the door today or in the next couple of days, and that will include this support for SVN, as well as collaboration.

I’ve been thinking about that for a while: how painful and multi-tasking it takes accomplish the day to day task that you’re accomplishing every day on the web.
Let me be concrete and consider these situations:

• You’re talking with a friend on Google Talk and you want to send him a couple of pictures from Flickr while talking about a new restaurant and he wants to paste a map in the conversation
• You’re tweeting about a great place you’ve been last night that you want to recommend and want to include in your post a shorten URL back to this place website as well as the location map
• You’re blogging on a specific subject and want to include videos, some related links and tags and some pictures that are currently hosted on an outside service.
• You’re reading an article and want to tweet about it while including a shorten URL back to it and include some other tweeter users in in.

These operations are all part of creating “enriched web streams” that mix and match photo, text, video, social networks signals etc. But to make that happen, most of the time, the average user will  have to open multiples browsers, cut and paste, login to some accounts, struggle with the limitations of each formats etc.

So obviously, when I got a demo from Google on Google Waves, I was very excited at the project underlying motto: to easily enrich the online conversations you might have, add or remove participants, facilitate sharing and communication (even in different languages). And the demo really works: you start to understand how this richer conversation can potentially change the way we communicate with each other on the web (and even keep track of these online enriched streams). Here’s the full video of the demo of the product. It’s a 1 hour and 20 minutes video but it’s really worth it:

The other very interesting project underway is The Mozilla Labs Ubiquity Project. It’s a slightly different scope and objective: the goal is to make your life easier when you’re using the Internet, just like having on your side a little robot facilitating a lot of your most usual tasks.The project is totally open to anyone to contribute, faithful in that to the spirit of the Mozilla Foundation.

The reason I’m linking the two projects is that they’re both, in their own ways, going to help us enrich the way we’re using the Internet. They also both contribute in blurring the classic frontiers between desktop apps, software and online apps. Here’s a quick video explaining the Ubiquity project (that is just starting…).

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Firefox 3.5 is now alive and kicking! Our fastest release ever, new personal security features and support for open video. Its a release in which once again Firefox is “Upgrading the Web”.

Help us celebrate this landmark achievement in London, on Monday July 6. We’ll have a few beers together, and there will be a big screen to demo Firefox 3.5 and what’s new at Mozilla Labs.

We’d love to see your demos too – so please come along and share what you have.

Sign up on Upcoming at : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3013300/

Where: Shooting Star

125-129 Middlesex Street
London, England E1 8JF

See you there!

via labs.mozilla.com

« Weave Sync is a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together. It is part of the Weave project, which aims to integrate services more closely with the browser. »

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Direttamente dai Mozilla Labs una nuova raccolta di API pensate per offrire, anche agli utenti alle prime armi, la possibilità di scrivere Add-On per il browser OpenSource più famoso al mondo! Jetpack è un nuovo progetto per esplorare nuovi metodi per estendere e personalizzare il Web. Jetpack è una raccolta di API il quale ha l’obbiettivo di dare a tutti gli utenti la possibbilità di creare nuovi Add-On per Firefox.

Firefox Jetpack

Jetpack supporta il codice HTML, i fogli di stile CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) e la programmazione in JavaScript. Grazie proprio al supporto HTML, anche gli utenti alle prime armi avranno la possibilità di creare in proprio nuove estensioni e di espandere così le funzionalità di Firefox. Una novità è che tutte le estensioni create con Jetpack potranno essere installate e attivate al volo, ciò significa che è stata finalmente eliminata la fastidiosa necessità di riavviare il browser per poterle utilizzare. E’ ancora in una fase primordiale, ma è già possibile installarlo sul proprio browser e cominciare a scrivere estensioni.

Ciao e alla prossima…

Por Percy Cabello

Mozilla Labs ha presentado Jetpack, una nueva extensión de Firefox que añade una nueva interfaz de programación (API), que los desarrolladores pueden utilizar para crear novedosas y relativamente livianas mejoras (llamadas utilidades). Como ejemplo, Mozilla Labs presentó una utilidad que puede ocultar anuncios, basada en la lista de proveedores de banners de adblockplus.org, muy similar a AdBlock Plus.

A pesar de esto, y al contrario que AdBlock Plus, no necesitas reiniciar Firefox para activar la utilidad, y crearla es una tarea mucho más simple (cerca de 100 líneas de código). Otro ejemplo, añade un notificador de Gmail a la barra de estado, en menos de 50 líneas de código, que es además posible gracias a su simple y poderosa API.

Para desarrollar nuevas utilidades, los programadores sólo necesitan saber HTML, CSS y JavaScript. Además viene integrado con jQuery, una librería JavaScript muy poderosa, y está diseñada para que los desarrolladores puedan enlazar a otros como Dojo, o APIs de sitios web como Twitter, que también viene integrado en este lanzamiento.

Un editor simple que se integra con la Consola de Error, o con la consola de Firebug, para una mejor limpieza de bugs también estará incluido, así como también un monitor de memoria básica, para que los desarrolladores puedan identificar las fugas de memoria.

Bespin, el editor de archivos de código basado en la web, ha sido añadido con soporte nativo para el desarrollo de las utilidades de Jetpack, haciéndolas más fácil de desarrollar, instalar, probar y activar o desactivarlas.

La distribución de las utilidades se hace a través de enlazar el archivo del código (JavaScript) como un recurso externo, de la misma manera que se hacen con los hilos web, o declarando un nuevo estilo de página. Si Firefox descubre que hay una utilidad de Jetpack disponible, aparece una barra de información, donde el usuario puede pinchar para añadir la utilidad. Por defecto, las utilidades alojadas en otros sitios que no sean jetpack.mozillalabs.com, muestran un aviso del riesgo potencial de añadir esta utilidad y para más datos, nos enseña el código completo.

Jetpack es un nuevo proyecto de Mozilla Labs, que hace a Firefox un navegador aún más extensible: temas, personas, extensiones, comandos de Ubiquity, motores de búsqueda, diccionarios y plugins (sin mencionar algunas extensiones que hacen las cosas a su manera como Stylish, Greasemonkey o CustomButton), todas contribuciones para hacer que la navegación web sea una actividad más personal.

Puedes conseguir la extensión Jetpack y ver algunos ejemplos en el sitio web de Jetpack.

También tienes una nota (con vídeo incluído) en Mozilla-Hispano.

We’re almost done with our Mozilla Open Education course. Part of the course requirement we have to come up with a project blue print. I came up with two project blue prints. Where in the first one is I can say a dream blue print and the other one is more on a realistic blue print.

A. A mash-up project (Social Media for Kids ages 5-12) hahaha! I know that there will be a lot of restriction for this kind of space. BUt, if we’re going to really digest and create activities that are suited for their age I believe there’s no reason for us to do this. If we’re looking into the future of social media. Rather seeing young kids lied about their age in facebook, why not we create one solely for kids. Well, I haven’t received any comment from my course group on this ….as they have also other proposal for a mash-up project. Maybe this can also evolve into an OER platform where in kids can collaboratively share, create and learn from other kids around the globe.
B. An Open Source Development online course and OER – I came up with this idea, after talking to OER (Open Education Resources) specialist from University of Michigan, that they have OER medical courses in their university, which bring me back to what we had in Exist. Where in we teach Open Source Development to some Universities. But, implementing one course was too heavy in logistics. But, running this Open Source Development course online (using OS tools and technologies) will reach more people globally and will entail huge collaboration from the people who are expert and been in a while in OS development. A great opportunity also for individuals who have the passion in Software Development and service, This seems interesting as I received so many inputs and comments from our MOzopenedu group. I’m really looking forward to have this implemented. The web tech presentation of Ben and Dion from Mozilla Labs on the week 5 of our course was interesting and I thought of including it in this course.

Hopefully we can come up with the final project blueprint, still snooping on some inputs and ideas to put together.

Mabuhay!