Mozilla in Asia

• Baidu’s William Chang: ‘No reason for China to use Wikipedia’
  No need for any other user-generated content from outside of China, right?
• Getting Ready for the Launch of Firefox 3
  Mozilla’s Paul Kim on our plans for launch
• Microsoft: break up HTML 5
  Who benefits from this proposal? Who can’t or does not want to implement the HTML 5 specification?  Oh, you don’t say?  How surprising.

• MySpace Launches in South Korea: Capitalizing on Asian affinity for fancy stationery, the feature has options to personalize stamps and backgrounds to resemble different types of notebook paper.Huh? Make a website look like paper? What is this? 1994? All Asians like fancy stationary?  WTF?
• Data of 10 million [Korean] people leaked on Internet: police Internet Auction Co., whose shares are largely owned by the U.S. auction site Ebay Inc., was hacked from an overseas location in early February, resulting in the loss of residential and email addresses as well as resident registration numbers of about 60 percent of its users, the police said.
  
• Foreign Web Giants Find Little Success in S.Korea

  This is a poorly written article. Google and Yahoo! were late to the Korean market.  The US search giants focused on Japan first.

• Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics: TED video, worth watching.
• Marc Andreessen Founder, Ning, Opsware, Netscape; Creator of Mosaic talks at startup school: nice to see Marc in action.

• Daring Fireball: Firefox 3 vs. Safari 3
  Gruber’s thoughts
• Beltzner.ca: Good suggestions, Mac hackers wanted!
  Beltzner’s response to Gruber
• FedoraCryptoConsolidation - Fedora Project Wiki
  “To accomplish the goals of this effort, we will be using the NSS crypto libraries. NSS has been awarded FIPS 140 certificates four times, It is used in client applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, and in server applications such as Fedora Directory Server.” - Fedora consolidates to NSS.
• Firefox’s Mitchell Baker — the anniversary interview in full
  Mitchell interview by the Guardian UK.
• David Baron’s Weblog: Teaching to the test
  dbaron on the Acid 3 test
• Gartner: Open source will quietly take over
  “Licensing is only a slice of the total cost, but historically, companies have only bought as many licences as they can afford. If you remove the licence cost, you may only remove three percent of the of total cost of the existing project, but you also remove the brakes — you massively expand the numbers that project can be rolled out to at no extra cost. ”
  “Open source gives massive scalability at no transaction cost, for whatever you are doing,”

Links of note today, March 26th.

• tombuntu.com - Easily Install Prism Web Apps in Ubuntu 8.04
• Mitchell Baker’s lizardwrangler.com - Revenue and Motives
• HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Berkman Center for Internet & Society - Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Event Video/Audio) and related blog for the book
• diveintomark.com - AwesomeBar
• treehugger.com - Mozilla Firefox Goes ‘Organic’
• InfoWorld - Angry Vista users vent over SP1 driver issues
• comScore Top 10 Gaining Properties by Percentage Change in Unique Visitors* (U.S.) February 2008 vs. January 2008 - Mozilla is in the top 10

Some links I enjoyed today…

• HowSoftwareIsBuilt.com - Interview with Mike Shaver - Chief Evangelist - Mozilla: Great, detailed interview with my colleague Mike Shaver on Mozilla.
• ZDNet - What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates: Ed Bott of ZDNet agrees with Mozilla’s CEO John Lilly on the recent controversy where Apple is using their Software Update mechanism to send Safari to iTunes users on Windows.
• TechCrunch - Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism: Matthew Gertner deep dives into site-specific browsing.
• ArsTechnica - Safari 3.1 on Windows: a true competitor arrives (seriously): “Fonts are still a problem. In fact, for me, the fonts are a deal-breaker. Safari 3.1 for Windows continues to use the Mac OS X font anti-aliasing mechanism rather than ClearType, which is the native font anti-aliasing system in Windows. The result is text that is often fuzzy, particularly smaller text. Sometimes small text looks bold when it isn’t.”
  • Comments on the ArsTechnica review of Safari 3.1: “Mind you, I prefer the look of Leopard to Vista, but in the overall context of Vista Safari looks drab. ‘Drab’ is better in Leopard, but on Vista it looks like Cheney in a hunting coat among the tuxedo wearers.”

• Fast Company - Dead Man Walking — AOL and Time Warner — AOL Troubles: “…what emerges is a tale of failure on multiple fronts: short-term thinking, bad technology, bungled product development, a dramatic miscalculation of what drives page views on its own site, and a risk-averse culture more prone to imitation than innovation.“