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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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Last week we pushed out a BrowserID feature that gets us closer to the decentralized identity system we envision for the Web. But more than that, it enables a truly awesome user experience—registration flows go from 8 screens to one simple sign-in. Seriously! See for yourself: Chicken or egg Some context: Building a distributed system is a chicken and egg problem - you have to design a system that can demonstrate the power of your idea and the advantages of a distributed architecture while you  show all text

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Back in December when we were working on Popcorn Maker v0.1, we were trying to integrate a template by Brian Chirls that implemented chroma-keying. Chroma keying is a process where you film a video with a pure color (usually blue or green) backdrop, and then in post production, replace it with other content. This is used in movies to film dangerous or impossible scenes, and in the weather forecasts to display the weather behind the newscaster. Brian’s template allowed people to do the same live,  show all text

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Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.

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Tech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact: Apple's iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft. Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft. Think about that. The iPhone did not exist five years ago. And now it's bigger than a company that, 15 years ago, was dragged into court and threatened with forcible break-up because it had amassed an unassailable and unthinkably profitable monopoly. The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft. In the December quarter,...  show all text

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While Americans fret over modern parenthood, the French are raising happy, well-behaved children without all the anxiety. Pamela Druckerman on the Gallic secrets for avoiding tantrums, teaching patience and saying non with authority. Adapted from Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting.

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I am proud to share the news that Google Summer of Code 2012 was announced this morning at FOSDEM. This will be the 8th year for Google Summer of Code, an innovative program dedicated to introducing students from colleges and universities around the world to open source software development. The program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects with the help of mentoring organizations from all around the globe. Over the past seven years Google Summer of ...  show all text

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Firefox 11 contains the first Firefox implementation of the SPDY protocol. SPDY is a secure web transport protocol that encapsulates HTTP/1 while replacing its aging connection management strategies. This results in more responsive page loads today and enables better scalability with the real time web of tomorrow. The most important goal of SPDY is to transport web content using fewer TCP connections. It does this by multiplexing large numbers of transactions onto one TLS connection. This has m...  show all text

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Mozilla is developing a push notification system for Firefox that will allow websites to send notifications to users even when the user doesn't have the site open in a tab.

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css3test.com is doing the rounds. I get almost exactly the same results in Firefox trunk and Chrome Nightly (64% vs 63%). This gives me a chance to explain why this sort of testing tends to be bad for the Web, without sounding whiny and bitter :-). The root of the problem is very simple, and explained right at the top of the page: Caution: This test checks which CSS3 features the browser recognizes, not whether they are implemented correctly. Thanks for the disclaimer, but it doesn't eliminate ...  show all text

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Sources with direct knowledge of the Komen decision-making process said recent policies were adopted specifically to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. An entirely avoidable, and deeply regrettable, controversy has been raging this week over the decision by the (formerly highly esteemed) Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation, the world's leading breast-cancer research advocacy group, to cut its support for Planned Parenthood, which used Komen dollars (about $600,000 annually)  to pay for bre...  show all text

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Writing efficient and responsive websites are important to providing a great user experience. Some website layouts cause inefficient rendering, hurting the experience of the users that we try so hard to please. Starting in Firefox 11 (currently in the beta channel), there is a hidden preference (nglayout.debug.paint_flashing) to enable what we call “paint flashing”. Whenever the layout engine determines that a region of the browser requires repainting, the region is tinted with a random color v...  show all text

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Firefox for Windows, Mac and Linux adds powerful built-in developer tools and delivers smoother updates by making add-ons compatible by default. Firefox adds a number of new built-in developer tools that let developers change the look and feel of websites in real-time. With Page Inspector, developers can peek into a page’s structure and layout without having to leave Firefox. This means they can quickly navigate between page elements and view the HTML document structure for the page. Style Ins...  show all text

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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated). Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I'll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do...  show all text

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Leigh Van Bryan wrote the message weeks before he was due to go to Los Angeles with friend Emily Banting and it was picked up by American special agents.

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The chief executive of one of the fastest-growing startups on the internet says he lied about his age and experience to woo clients David Karp, the founder of the blogging platform Tumblr, was 17 when he decided to cut the apron strings and move to Tokyo. With a smattering of Japanese and a sharp eye for computer code, the impatient Manhattan teenager embarked on a period of self-discovery. "I was holed up in the middle of this world where it was just me on the internet," Karp recalls. Within w...  show all text

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Twitter’s announcement this week that it was going to enable country-specific censorship of posts is arousing fury around the Internet. Commentators, activists, protesters and netizens have said it’s “very bad news” and claim to be “#outraged”. Bianca Jagger, for one, asked how to go about boycotting Twitter, on Twitter, according to the New York Times. (Step one might be… well, never mind.) The critics have settled on #TwitterBlackout: all day on Saturday the 28th, they promised to not tweet, ...  show all text

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Hollywood is really mad at the technology industry for killing SOPA, their bill to equip the US government with China and Iran-like powers to take down web sites suspected of “assisting” piracy, without any due process. From their rhetoric, it’s clear that Hollywood still hasn’t learned anything from this. And then it struck me…why don’t we teach them? Since they’re so persnickety about licensing agreements, let’s amend all of our terms of use to require all movie moguls to use a special “Holly...  show all text

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What is Pancake? Pancake is a new Mozilla Labs project focused on exploring, evolving and expanding how we search, browse, navigate, organize and discover amazing things on the Web. To do this, we’re creating an app — a usable prototype that we’ll share and iterate on rapidly through an ongoing series of experiments. We want to better understand what people do on the Web, why and how they do those things, and how we can make those things easier and more efficient. We’re playing with some huge c...  show all text

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CLUE 1:      “went to short dogs house,        they was watching Yo MTV        RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired:                Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:                Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3:       ”The Lakers beat the Super         Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:       Nov 11 1988    114-103       Nov 30 1988    110-106       Apr    4 1989   ...  show all text

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