I spend a lot of time thinking about this as a Mozillian. And just this week I had the privilege to meet the producer of an upcoming documentary addressing the challenges we have in this regard.
But today I had the utter joy to see why this issue is so tangible. So palpable.
If there were no free web, there’d be none of this. Profuse thanks to Deanna for calling this important material to our attention!
The gracious organizers at the increasingly-popular and relevant HTML5DevConference invited me back this year after I finagled my way into a hands-on dev event last year. Luckily the markets have changed enough where I could still speak non-geek and hold some interest to this audience of over 1,000 web developers (not all attended my talk, fear not ;).
Today was perfect timing as my talk discussed why Mozilla is the perfect fomenter of the revolution that needs to happen in mobile. Why today? Because it is also Mozilla’s 15-year anniversary. And it’s our history that really illustrates how revolutionary our DNA is, and just why this is so important for our mobile world.
Here’s a glimpse at the slides. Hit me up at @tbiz with any questions or simply leave a comment here. Viva la revolucion!
It is an honor and a blast to be able to work with fantastic people at Mozilla. This month they launched WebRTC, which lets people do lots of amazing things with video and audio on the web in real-time. Bye bye downloads, among other things.
It will be amazing to see what kinds of creative things people do with this. Here’s a fun tool that Andrei cooked up that lets you snap a photo of yourself and transposes it into ASCII – check it out!
