Inside the Lab podcast with the WindLight Team

“Inside the Lab” Podcast, a Discussion on Education in Second Life

13 Responses to ““Inside the Lab” Podcast, a Discussion on Education in SecondLife” · 1 Sandor Balczo Says: June 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 AM I take that back. It works now. You may remove my previous comment and this one to allow other people to express their views :). Sandor · 2 Katt Linden Says: June 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 AM Thanks, Sandor! I hope you enjoy the podcast! – Katt · 3 Massively.com SL news Says: June 2nd, 2008 at 5:57 AM Inside The Lab podcast on education… The latest Inside Linden Lab podcast is out from Linden Lab (although this one is called Inside The Lab instead of the usual name — perhaps an oversight). Unfortunately, the audio quality of this podcast is quite poor and it is difficult to listen to. [lien] [EN]

‘Inside the Lab’ podcast with Philip Rosedale

22 Responses to “‘Inside the Lab’ podcast with Philip Rosedale” · 1 nimrod Yaffle Says: December 21st, 2007 at 12:21 PM PST “Next year I’ll talk with different Linden Lab team members about what they’re doing in Second Life and how that impacts your experience.” It would be great if this were quarterly. :/ · 2 Tess Greenwood Says: December 21st, 2007 at 12:32 PM PST I believe by next year they mean after New Year’s, not next December · 3 amilie anatine Says: December 21st, 2007 at 12:42 PM PST Phillip your timing is impeccable. · 4 Gully Miles Says: December 21st, 2007 at 12:48 PM PST It would be good if Philip could find time to say something on this blog about the departure of Cory Ondrejka. I’m sure a lot of us are wondering what difference that’s likely to make. [lien] [EN]

‘Inside the Lab’ podcast with Joe Miller

20 Responses to “‘Inside the Lab’ podcast with JoeMiller” · 1 Cat Gisel Says: January 24th, 2008 at 1:53 PM PST the mv4 (mp4?) comes across as m4a….sneaky sneaky…no fair! I dunno what to do with it now, it won’t play on my phone · 2 catherinelinden Says: January 24th, 2008 at 2:01 PM PST oops, my bad. Thanks for calling that out. It’s actually an m4a file. I’ve just changed it. · 3 Francis Says: January 24th, 2008 at 2:17 PM PST Would it be possible to post a transcript? I can read faster than I can listen. Also, I’m sure text would be better for the hearing impaired · 4 MCM Villiers Says: January 24th, 2008 at 2:18 PM PST Is there anyway to stream these into SecondLife with out setting up a server? · 5 Buster McNutt Says. [lien] [EN]

Seeking Jetpack Instructors: Join Our Community Evangalism Team

Jetpack’s goal is to be extension development for everybody. As part of that goal, we are putting out an open call for people to join the community of coders, instructors, and bloggers helping others learn how to write jetpacks to make the browser a better place to work, play, and communicate. In particular, we’d love to see - Introductory talks/slides-decks about what Jetpack is, and how to use it, Jetpack tutorials and walkthroughs. We are planning on organizing events around the world to get people engaged, excited, and using Jetpack to get real-world feedback on Jetpack’s platform and it’s needs—shaping the future of Jetpack and browser development. For example, on October 2nd, we’ll be running a -hour Hackathon in Prague. The Hackathon starts with a set of hands-on lessons on learning to use Jetpack. [lien] [EN]

Welcome to the new Labs website!

A while back, the Labs team decided that it was time to update the look and feel of our web presence. We took advantage of that work to also do a full upgrade to the back-end of the site. Today we’re proud and excited to launch the end result of that project. The team involved with design, development, and testing work has been stellar, and includes - Sean Martell, Neil Lee, Ryan Doherty, Stephen Donner, Krupa Raj, and Raymond Etornam. This site is wholly their creation and they’ve all been a fantastic (and fun) to work with. The site itself is constructed on a straightforward WordPress Multi-User installation, with two custom themes designed by Sean and developed by Neil and Ryan. All content and customization for each project site can be edited via the WordPress UI. [lien] [EN]

Labs Conceptual Event this Wednesday in SF

Join us in SoMA on Wednesday night for a special Labs event starting at 6:30pm. Come wearing your thinking hat. More details soon to be posted. [lien] [EN]

Monthly Labs Meetup - August 2008 - San Francisco

It’s time for another Monthly Meetup. This month’s meetup will be Thursday, August 28th, 6pm at the Twitter office - 539 Bryant St. Suite 402, San Francisco. There will be progress updates on the various active Labs projects as well as plenty of opportunity for discussion and hacking. And of course, pizza :) If you are in [...] [lien] [EN]

Mozilla Labs Meetup – Thursday, August 27th

After a brief hiatus, we are back again for another edition of Labs Night, our monthly meetup to discuss Labs projects, your projects and the Open Web. Our August session will be this Thursday9 pm at the (still) new Mozilla HQ – 0 Castro Street, Suite 0 in downtown Mountain View. The event is open to everyone, so if you are in the area feel free to stop by. Our featured speaker this week is Li Gong, Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online, the Beijing based subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation. Li will be talking about a wide variety of topics related to firefox, the mozilla community and the open web in China. We will also hear what a lot of the Mozilla Labs projects have been working on, in 5 minute lightning talk style presentations. We’ll have a few slots open for other lightning talks as well. [lien] [EN]

WindLight Look-and-Feel Survey Part 2!

42 Responses to “WindLight Look-and-Feel Survey Part 2!” · 1 Blabla2 Eponym Says: January 8th, 2008 at 11:07 AM PST Happy to see your interested in our opinions. I personally think that the windlight viewer has degraded, for the simple reason that the new update, which was supposingly to fix a german url, also corrupted the sky on higher settings. This bug still hasn’t been solved… · 2 Doris Haller Says: January 8th, 2008 at 11:10 AM PST Wow, I am the first? The survey is nice, although it could be a little bit more detailed. I am missing questions about the performance. Summary: Looks great, but the current version is much slower than previous versions and the current main viewer. Previous versions were ALL essentially faster than the main viewer. [lien] [EN]

New WindLight Viewer (77495) + Mac talk

63 Responses to “New WindLight Viewer (77495) + Mactalk” · 1 Garmin Kawaguichi Says: January 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 PM PST Good one!!! · 2 Cerulean Capalini Says: January 23rd, 2008 at 12:38 PM PST I always get excited when there is a windlight update. (Crosses fingers that the next time skirt issues of disappearing on an avie will get fixed next time.) Thanks everyone. · 3 Kris Constellation Says: January 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 PM PST Great to see constant work on Windlight. Just hoping to see a release really soon now ! · 4 Shakeno Tomsen Says: January 23rd, 2008 at 12:39 PM PST Hi — I don’t know if this is related with the client… or whatever… but voice for some reason works only 2% of times I log-in, also when it is not working, when logging off. [lien] [EN]

What’s up with Weave?

As we work towards the 6 release (and eventually 0), I wanted to share more details on what we are working on. I am going to do this by grouping the work we are doing into four distinct categories. * Performance improvements We are concentrating very hard on initial sync performance. Initial sync is important for both new users as well as when you set up Weave Sync on new devices. We are working on a few different ideas to help improve initial sync performance. - WEP 2 is an attempt to allow “Weave to decide what subset of data to pull from the server and how to continue fetching the rest of the data later.” - WEP 5 aims to create an importance metric so we can come up with a meaningful subset of data. While these two are more near term, we are also exploring some ideas that are a little farther out. [lien] [EN]

Become a Test Pilot!

Today, we are announcing that our Test Pilot platform is opening with the release of the first Test Pilot add-on for Firefox . We are looking for Firefox users of all levels of skill and all levels of technical knowledge to help improve Firefox and Labs experiments. If you are interested in helping Mozilla make your Web experience better, join the Test Pilot team now! How test pilots help - Test Pilot is an opt-in program that everyone on the Web can join to improve the Web experience by conducting or participating in usability related tests. When you install the Test Pilot add-on, you will automatically become a Test pilot, and you will receive the notice for upcoming tests. You will have the option to quit tests or leave the platform. If the test requires you to install a new feature or product. [lien] [EN]

Personas Gallery Welcomes Its 20,000th Design

Approximately ten weeks ago, the Personas gallery welcomed its 0th design. Today, we’re happy to announce that that the gallery has since doubled in size. The Personas experiment launched on March 1st to give you easy-to-style, easy-to-share “skins” for your Firefox browser. The results have been inspiring. Since the launch, Personas has been downloaded by nearly 7 million people, who have now have access to designs from over 0 artists. With the support of the Personas community, we continue to make it easier for artists to create new designs and have them be discovered. We developed step-by-step templates for creating designs, raised awareness of the preview functionality, and offered links to free, online tools that anyone can use to create great looking art for the browser. We also implemented a “movers and shakers” category on our homepage. [lien] [EN]

Weave 0.5 Released

Weave Sync is a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop and mobile phone can all work together. It is part of the Weave project, which aims to integrate services more closely with the browser. Major Features - What is Weave Sync all about? In short, Weave Sync lets you securely take your Firefox experience with you to all your Firefox browsers — including our mobile browser, codenamed Fennec. It currently supports continuous synchronization of your bookmarks, browsing history, saved passwords and tabs. For example: Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers, so you can get to your favorite sites with just a few keystrokes, Continue what you were doing: have the ability to open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers. [lien] [EN]

Jetpack 0.4 – Audio Recording & Page Mods APIs

Jetpack is an experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play. Aligned with Mozilla’s goal of enabling open video and audio on the Web, we are pleased to announce the release of Jetpack , which includes experimental support for recording audio directly to Ogg-Vorbis. These new audio encoding APIs will allow developers to build Jetpacks that record high-quality audio directly from within the browser, which can then be played back using Firefox 5’s new audio tag support. This update to the rapidly evolving Jetpack APIs also enables the ability for developers to add features or functionality to any website being viewed in the browser using the “page mod” API. [lien] [EN]