John Lilly

I feel hopeful! - Skye Miller

My cynicism wasn't justified - I am almost in shock (though incredibly happy) - Bret Taylor

Happy birthday FF! What a year! - Mike Doeff

congrats - Alex Hammer

I see here how it's okay for you to play on your iPhone during dinner ;) - Amir H.

this is bizarre. it's like she thinks there's a potential russian air invasion of US that would go through Alaska. there are like 5 different problems with that. - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

Interestig to see how adding DOM operations evens out John's benchmarks (first has DOM ops and Safari beats Chrome, second is Google's apparently slightly biased benchmark, which relies heavily on recursion). - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

we're working on DOM work now. believe that the tracing technique has applications; working on getting the DOM acting faster soon. - John Lilly

granted all beta-quality of Chrome and zero-day securiity bug, i think their current *speed* shows only lack of exception handling. Once it matures, it will be same or evenn worse than FF - it is tough to beat long-standing code without rounding corners on usual code glue... - silpol

So far, so good. TraceMonkey nightlies are performing great. Amazing what that project's done in just 60 days. So much space left, too. - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

http://friendfeed.com/embed - Benjamin Golub

thanks benjamin! - John Lilly

The origins of Apple's Data Detectors goes back to at least 1996! - Chris Messina via Mento

earlier than that. ATG was working on it when i was there in 1994, maybe earlier. - John Lilly

Looks like Claris Emailer, one of my products :-) - Dave C

data detectors go back to our work in 1988 for ATG precursor to Newton OS - Jerry Schuman

most ridiculous offsite ever. bears, rock slide & power outage. - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

Sorry the offsite didn't work out. It always helps me to Blame Canada :) - Bret Taylor

It would surprise you have many Canadians have not seen the South Park movie and only know the song by reference. - Brett Cannon

link? - Jim Norris

Best thing is to explain in private if asked, but not discuss publicly. Inflating titles will cause the person doing it problems if a potential employer starts asking around about them. - Chris White

Agreed with Chris White. I have caught out someone doing this before when he applied for a job at my company. I knew someone he worked with, etc, etc. Any place that thinks about hiring will check around. - Phil

I installed Scrabble, Facebook, and that roller-ball game (can't remember the name). The apps stall frequently, and I can't even get back to my phone's main screen for about a minute. Hard resets didn't even work. Very annoying. - Bret Taylor

Try this solution: http://revver.com/video/103308... - Ivan Pope via twhirl

I like Ivan's solution. - David Jeske

"BMW's MINI brand already produces some of the most efficient vehicles for sale in the US, and sources say the pint-sized cars will soon go emissions free, at least in California. BMW is planning to lease 490 Minis in California, with an additional 10 vehicles planned for show car duty. The emissions-free MINIs will be silver with a yellow roof, which should stand out nicely in the land of fruits and nuts" - Chris White via Bookmarklet

Sure, and what about the rest of us? - Aura Mae

As I already own a BMW Mini and love it, I would definitely investigate an emission free option if one where available in the UK in the future. - Russ G

a really interesting, nuanced post from Larry on Obama's campaign over the last month or so. really, really thought provoking. (and as an aside, I think relevant in many other contexts than just this one.) - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

My own (brief) 2 cents on this, from the mozilla/firefox point of view, is that it can be a really good way to start -- to start getting interested & engaged users, to start getting a corpus of interesting data, to rapidly figure out what users want. And that that start could get you into the millions of users -- but over time you'll be led towards other & more comprehensive ways to give great stuff to users. - John Lilly

Agree with John. Extensions seem like a good way to get out there and build a name on a simpler platform, and then if your idea has potential to expand you can build from there. - Bartek Gniado

I really like the language you're using at the end, David -- it's about building coalitions of unlikely partners like businesses, schools, governments, individual contributors, etc... - John Lilly

it seems to me that while the Open Web might be a social movement (I agree that it is), that what Mozilla does is more deeply rooted in the practice of software than a less constrained social movement. So while I like the language and ideas here, I believe that there are things about Mozilla that are special and software-related. - John Lilly

The more i read this piece, the more I wonder about the advisability of using this idea as a way to try to organize Mozilla or the Mozilla Foundation. i've been waiting to make sure it's not somehow a defensive reaction, I'm getting close to being able to articulate my thoughts. When i'm a bit surer about this I'll write more. - Mitchell Baker

19% for Firefox. :-) - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

great start on what the mozilla foundation can/should be - John Lilly via Bookmarklet

Using it right now on my iPod Touch. :) - Raoul Pop

I agree with Stephen about "search". It's been quite the workout on the thumbs. - m.0

Like the FF iPhone site, wish they would implement the same "hide" options as the full FF site. - Joe Perrin

John wants FriendFeed to put pressure on Facebook. Does it? - Louis Gray

FriendFeed is a whole different beast than Facebook. Facebook is very strong at allowing its users to produce content and manage connections within the site while FriendFeed is great at aggregating, sorting, and creating a community around external content. Unfortunately, I believe FriendFeed's audience to be inherently geeky since they are willing to use the many different services while Facebook appears to the more average person. I hope more people will begin to branch from Facebook soon though. - Brandon Titus

"Currently, I usually just click through to people's pages on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc if I want to see who they are." True, though not everyone might like to use any of these services. How about you offer every user a chance to define their "about" page? I could link it to the Blogoscoped about page, others could link it to their Orkut page and what-not. Also, something like a 1-sentence wrap-up (like "Paul currently works at Friendfeed and likes to eat ...") may make sense even here (though it would create redundancy perhaps). Having a quick person blurb could be really useful in several situations here on Friendfeed, like when quickly deciding whether or not to subscribe to someone. - Philipp Lenssen

Is anyone working on getting JavaScript 2.0 into browsers? - Chris White

well, right at the moment, everyone is working on getting js2/ecmascript 4 actually spec'ed. long fight ahead. - John Lilly

Congrats! - Bret Taylor

thanks! we'll see if the rest of the billion is harder or easier. :-) - John Lilly

Great coverage for the FF team! - Charles Hudson

Who is this "early adopter blogger" guy they referenced? I love that. - Louis Gray

The screenshot has our very own Mr. Hudson on it. :) - Dave

saw it this afternoon -- awesome coverage!! congrats guys... - John Lilly

I can't believe it has been 10 years. You created an amazing company, and I am proud to briefly have been a part of it. - Bret Taylor

thanks brett! that's a really nice thing to say, and means a lot -- i'm watching for friendfeed to be much bigger & better -- waiting for the "10 years of friendfeed" post. :-) - John Lilly

Congrats! Nice pictures, too. ;) - Nirav Tolia

Lookin' forward to seeing this thing evolve! - danny

yay, I am glad I found this article. Cool service! - Maggyu

fun shopping site from a friend of mine. - John Lilly