{"id":423,"date":"2008-11-12T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T01:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2008-11-12T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T01:28:01","slug":"aboutlabs-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2008\/11\/aboutlabs-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Labs Update &#8211; November 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toolness.com\/images\/20081110112903.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Welcome to the first issue of <strong>about:labs<\/strong>, a new weekly newsletter that showcases innovation across the Mozilla community. In the coming weeks we&#8217;ll adopt the same infrastructure as the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/About:mozilla\">about:mozilla<\/a> newsletter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Concepts of the Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some ideas we&#8217;ve found that have sparked thoughts in our minds from the <a href=\"&lt;a href=\">Concept Series<\/a> and across the Web; we hope they inspire you, too.<\/p>\n<p>Please do <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/projects\/concept-series\/\">join us<\/a> and contribute your own thoughts, mock-ups, or prototypes. We&#8217;ll be highlighting new concepts each week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/herdict.org\/NetworkHealthAbout.jsp\">Herdict Web<\/a> is an upcoming project that aims to make diagnosing network accessibility problems a lot easier. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;padding-top: 15px;padding-bottom: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/herdict.org\/assets\/H06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mywot.com\/\">Web of Trust<\/a> is a Firefox extension that aims to warn you before you enter a risky website through a social web-of-trust model.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pet3\/2804502129\/\">Maxview of Browser History<\/a> is an interesting mock-up of visual browser history. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;padding-top: 15px;padding-bottom: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3060\/2804502129_0d31ebb3fb_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/forum\/comments.php?DiscussionID=1491\/\">Adaptive HTML Rendering Lens<\/a> is a fascinating proposal for new Firefox functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ubiquity Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ubiquity team is currently working on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/Ubiquity\/0.2_Roadmap_Proposals\">Ubiquity 0.2 Roadmap Proposals<\/a> to determine the feature set of Ubiquity 0.2 and figure out how to get there from here.  Feel free to contribute to this wiki page or the ongoing discussion in the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/ubiquity-firefox\">mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weave Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Weave team is currently working on version 0.3 and has recently released a proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/tobyelliott.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/20\/introducing-the-weave-server-03-api\/\">Server 0.3 API<\/a>, along with a new <a href=\"http:\/\/tobyelliott.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/29\/weave-03-prototype-server\/?referer=sphere_related_content\/\">server prototype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Jono DiCarlo just posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/12\/user-interface-proposal-for-weave-on-fennec\/\">awesome new UI proposal<\/a> for Weave on Fennec.  Check it out and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snowl Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Snowl team is working on the next version of Snowl, with more and better views, the ability to send messages, and a bunch of bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monthly Labs Meetup &#8211; November 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for another <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2008\/09\/mozilla-labs-meetup-thursday-925\/\">Monthly Meetup<\/a>. This month\u2019s Labs Night will be next Wednesday, November 12th, 6pm at Mozilla\u2019s office &#8211; 1981 Landings Drive, bldg K in Mountain View, California.<\/p>\n<p>We are super excited about this session. The teams from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedcamp.com\/\">Seedcamp<\/a> are spending the week in Silicon Valley and will be joining us on Wednesday evening. Several Mozilla folks will be giving lightning talks &#8211; Dion Almaer will be discussing the Ajax revolution and how it dovetails with UX; Jono DiCarlo will give an update on Mozilla Labs projects; and David Ascher and the Thunderbird team will discuss their latest UI experiments. We&#8217;ll also have time for discussion, hacking, and of course, pizza. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the Bay Area we\u2019d love to see you next week!  Please RSVP in the comments of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2008\/11\/mozilla-labs-meetup-wednesday-1112\/\">this blog post<\/a> so we know how many to expect. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the first issue of about:labs, a new weekly newsletter that showcases innovation across the Mozilla community. In the coming weeks we&#8217;ll adopt the same infrastructure as the popular about:mozilla newsletter. Concepts of the Week Here&#8217;s some ideas we&#8217;ve &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2008\/11\/aboutlabs-issue-1\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}