Fellow Nestornicians,
A couple of days ago we went to the first
Mozilla Labs Meetup in London. The Labs themselves are only a tiny part of Mozilla, in case of Europe most people (8 if I remember correctly) work distributed from home. Pascal and Jane Pinette explained the idea behind
Mozilla Labs and showcased some of the recent projects. With words, not lengthy PowerPoint presentations.
Mozilla is always looking for new and innovative approaches to browse the web, interact with web content or simply helping users to enjoy the web more. Those approaches need to be discussed with the largest possible group of users, tested, re-validated and challenged. That’s why Labs builds an online collaboration center where anybody can upload screenshots of new idea, comment on other and discuss. It’s an interesting approach that takes advantage of the power of the masses, and it was very interesting to hear them disucss grappling with the issues this approach presents. Big thanks to the Mozilla team for the interesting chat (and of course the great products). We especially enjoyed the “guerrilla” style of the venue.
Here at Lokku (the company behind Nestoria) we test and explore our ideas on our own testing platform
Lokku Labs. These projects are often a different way to search the same data or they mix data with other sources. Basically it’s a playground for us to experiment.
The next Mozilla Labs meetup is
The Bespin Special tomorrow, Tuesday March 10th near Kings Cross. Watch out for other European events, e.g. the
Mozilla Add-Ons Workshop in Berlin at the end of March. Also if interested subscribe to
their blog for more announcements.
