Mozilla in 2012
2012 was an incredible year for Mozilla. We mobilized. We did a better job than I have ever seen us do identifying the places where we needed to have impact, and then we focused and delivered. There’s a lot for [...]
Posts by Mark LaVine
Hack This Game
Introducing this year’s “Game On” competition Imagine the Web as an open gaming platform for the world. Where game players seamlessly become game creators. Where your favorite games work on any device, anytime, anywhere. And where your own personal web-based [...]
Art Meets the Open Web
Announcing the Mozilla Eyebeam Open(Art) Fellows Today, Mozilla and the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center are pleased to announce the recipients of the first-ever Open(Art) Fellowships. Together, these creative technologists will be exploring the frontier of art and the open [...]
Firefox Gets Social with Facebook
Today, we’re excited to announce that Firefox is getting social with Facebook Messenger for Firefox, which is built on a new Social API for the Web. Firefox is the Web browser of choice for hundreds of millions of people worldwide [...]
Why is ITU Governance of the Internet a Bad Idea?
We, along with many other Internet denizens, have serious concerns about the World Congress on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12), which the International Telecommunications Union will convene today in Dubai. Our concerns stem from the core belief that openness, innovation, and opportunity [...]
The ITU and You
The Internet has always been guided forwards by collaborative, open approaches. We believe that these approaches are one of the reasons why the Web has become and remained the wonderful, powerful and empowering place we know today. In the coming [...]
Is the Pending German Copyright Bill Good or Bad for the Web?
A new copyright bill pending approval by the German Parliament would require search engines and other commercial actors to pay a license for using headlines or short snippets from their articles. The publishers essentially want a piece of the revenue [...]
Mozilla Invests in Everything.me to Further the Web as a Dynamic App Platform
Mozilla is a non-profit organization with a mission to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web, and we are dedicated to building the Web as a powerful platform for compelling app experiences. We’ve recently been working on this platform [...]
Offering a Firefox with MSN Custom Experience
We first added Bing as a search option in Firefox and later announced Firefox with Bing as a customized Firefox experience for Bing users. Today, we are releasing Firefox with MSN, a customized version of Firefox for MSN users. Firefox [...]
Firefox Introduces New Social API and Previews Integration with Facebook
Firefox releases a new Social API and a preview of the first social integration with Facebook Messenger for Firefox. Much like the OpenSearch standard, Mozilla’s new Social API lets social services integrate into Firefox in a compelling way and makes [...]