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Re: The Fine Line Between Informing and Spamming Your Followers

johnolilly — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:17:27 -0000

I've been thinking lately that I'm going to start a new twitter account -- instead of @johnolilly, I think I'll call it @johnolilly.noisy -- and I'll hook up all my 'sensor' streams to it. Like Nike+, thesixtyone.com, etc etc. The idea I'm having is that people can have multiple channels of stream -- and that different people can sort of self-service select the streams to subscribe to.

Re: Why can’t my computer and stereo system talk to one another?

johnolilly — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:30:52 -0000

dave, i think you want a squeezebox -- i got one a couple of months ago & think it's great.

Re: Mozilla & Firefox Market Share

johnolilly — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:46:58 -0000

Ah -- I said that we're effective at it everywhere but [South] Korea (and presumably North, too, but that's not really what i meant.)

In South Korea, there are some government regulations & crypto techs that are used by the government that require ActiveX implementations, and so it's been very very hard for us to get any significant traction -- as a result , it's harder for us to spread the OpenWeb message.

Re: mozilla talk at stanford

johnolilly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:00:14 -0000

hi; i don't mind questions or dissent at all -- it's actually the only way that anything really good happens, as people need to push on things & challenge the status quo. it's how i *like* to work, and anyone who's worked with me for any period of time knows that.

if you've got real issues, send me mail to talk about them -- if you're the same person who's written before, i understand you must have specific things you want to talk about -- but to my knowledge none of these comments are grounded in any way. if you're mad about specific things, let me know and we can talk through them. i'm easy to find -- lastName @ mozilla dot com. short of that, it's hard to understand what you're unhappy about and address it.

for whatever it's worth, we do indeed push decisions as far out as possible -- we do it for routine things, we do it for significant things. we have many decision makers, in all functions.

Re: Personality not included, by Rohit Bhargava

johnolilly — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:41:48 -0000

hey rohit -- thanks for commenting. sorry to be dismissive -- i think many of the things you've written i internalized a while ago, so wasn't as useful as i was hoping. concept is good, though, and maybe useful for folks who don't have the same context.

Re: Can You Build A Business On Browser Extensions?

johnolilly — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:33:11 -0000

fred, google isn't going to support GBS fro Firefox 3 -- you'll have to ask them why they made that decision. there are a couple of alternatives, although not as comprehensive (in the case of Foxmarks) or as mature (in the case of Weave from Mozilla Labs)