It’s Friday: Goofy but fascinating Thunderbird Add-ons day
Two different and equally goofy but interesting add-ons are in my personal news today: Kent James released ToneQuilla, which I like to call “BiffTones!”, which allows you to set custom notification...
View ArticlePositive Energy for Change, for a Change
Change is hard. I spend a lot of time trying to enable, encourage, foster, stimulate, provoke, change in software. Part of that is because it feels like it’s that most plastic of human endeavors. That,...
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Thunderbird Quality Project, one year in
Ludovic posted on QMO about the results after one year of Thunderbird bug days. The chart is impressive. Sincere thanks to Gary, Wayne, Ludovic, and everyone else who jumps in to help. In related news,...
View ArticleOpen Source, Open Standards, Open Data, Open Vancouver
Exciting Vancouver news! Mayor Robertson has put forth a motion for city council to vote on next week which is chock full of amazing words, and which passed, will direct the city to have a bias...
View ArticleDesign tools for the open web: reflections on the fixoutlook campaign
The twittersphere is abuzz with the current twitterstorm about Microsoft’s plan to use the “Word HTML engine” in the next version of Outlook. It’s a campaign that’s an organization which represents...
View ArticleTim O'Reilly on the future web wars
I’ve tended to limit my link referrals to my Twitter feed over the last year, but I wanted to advertise Tim O’Reilly’s latest post on this channel as well (it also feels great to have more than 100...
View ArticleOutlook PST importer anyone?
This week, Microsoft published an open source (Apache 2) SDK to read PST files. From what I heard, it works with Unicode PST files as generated by Outlook 2003 or later. It’s a healthy move on...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing thoughts
On Wednesday, I’m attending Remixology 2, an event put together by Fresh Media, on the topic of crowdsourcing. In particular, I’ll somehow be the representative of the entire open web perspective on...
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Thunderbird 3 beta 1 – a platform for innovation shapes up
Today, we’re announcing our first beta-quality release since the Thunderbird project was re-energized about a year ago. It’s exciting to see the first in what will be a series of releases aimed at a...
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Appreciation for the builders of the web
Happy Willy Wednesday! by Valerie I just spent a couple of days playing around with ideas, words to describe those ideas, and code to make those ideas come to life. It had been quite a few months since...
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