{"id":874,"date":"2009-01-31T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T00:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillalabs.com\/?p=874"},"modified":"2012-03-30T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T23:07:08","slug":"labs-update-january-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/01\/labs-update-january-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Labs Update &#8211; January 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/01\/labs-update-january-2009\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"none\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-565\" src=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/uploads\/2008\/12\/aboutlabs_newsletter_masthead.gif\" alt=\"aboutlabs_newsletter_masthead\" width=\"576\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong>January 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Concept Series<\/h2>\n<h3>Design Challenge<\/h3>\n<p>This month we announced the first of a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/01\/introducing-the-design-challenge\/\">Design Challenges<\/a>. We\u2019re inviting design-focused students from around the world to develop new ideas &amp; prototypes for the future of the Web.  <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.mozilla.com\/2009\/01\/introducing-the-design-challenge\/\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Design Review<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/faaborg\/\">Alex Faaborg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azarask.in\/blog\/\">Aza Raskin<\/a> posted another edition of their <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2836740\">Design Review podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2836740&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2836740&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<h3>Concepts of the Month<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dchang.mit.edu\/\">Liyan Chang<\/a> from MIT explores several interesting concepts for improving the Firefox UI in this short <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2829847\">concept video<\/a>.\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2829847&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Maureen Hanratty and Ian Tadashi Moore from UMich have created <a href=\"http:\/\/lizblankenship.com\/temp\/arcilight.swf\">Arclight<\/a>, a Flash animation that proposes a UI for a touch-screen kitchen table.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Honorable Mentions<\/h3>\n<p>Useful, interesting or cool sites that we&#8217;ve come across this month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iplotz.com\/\">iPlotz<\/a> &#8211; A useful tool for creating mockups and wireframes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twiddla.com\/\">Twiddla<\/a> &#8211; A web-based meeting space with team whiteboarding and the ability to mark up websites, graphics, and photos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/idealist.blinkr.net\/\">idealist<\/a> &#8211; A site for creators and designers to post their ideas and gather community feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Experiments<\/h2>\n<h3>Personas<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/suneelgupta.wordpress.com\/\">Suneel Gupta<\/a> provides <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2832032\">an update on Personas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2832032&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h3>Prism<\/h3>\n<p>Work continues on the plan to uplift a Prism-like feature into a future version of Firefox. You can follow the early specification work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Labs\/PrismFeature\">Mozilla Wiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Prism\">Prism experiment and platform<\/a> itself will continue in its exploration independent of this effort.  If you\u2019re new to the concept of site-specific browsers, be sure to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/6665\">Prism for Firefox add-on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Snowl<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\">Myk Melez<\/a> provides <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2756134\">an update on Snowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2756134&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h3>Ubiquity<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/\">Jono DiCarlo<\/a> posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/16\/an-ar-chy-in-the-name-space\/\">series of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/17\/when-is-a-verb-not-a-verb\/\">blog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/24\/dont-make-me-do-more-typing\/\">posts<\/a> exploring a new approach to verbs in Ubiquity, culminating in a proposal for new <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/24\/overlord-verbs-a-proposal\/\">Overlord Verbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theunfocused.net\/\">Blair McBride<\/a> put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/theunfocused.net\/2009\/01\/16\/ubiquitous-information-part-1\/\">high-level look<\/a> at information storage in Ubiquity.<\/p>\n<p>There is also now a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2996746\">Ubiquity command development tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"251\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2996746&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Weave<\/h3>\n<p>Work progresses toward the 0.3 major update with full support for <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Fennec\">Fennec<\/a>.  Account registration has re-opened and you can now sign up for a Weave account at <a href=\"https:\/\/services.mozilla.com\/\">https:\/\/services.mozilla.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jono provides <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2974320\">an update on what&#8217;s up with Weave<\/a> and the changes coming in Ubiquity with the proposed introduction of <a href=\"http:\/\/jonoscript.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/24\/overlord-verbs-a-proposal\/\">Overlord Verbs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2974320&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 2009 Concept Series Design Challenge This month we announced the first of a series of Design Challenges. We\u2019re inviting design-focused students from around the world to develop new ideas &amp; prototypes for the future of the Web. Learn more &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2009\/01\/labs-update-january-2009\/\">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":[4863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874"}],"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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}