Archive for March, 2013

Personal computing in a decentralized world: a hopeful direction

I’ve been having a really stimulating few weeks, which is making me feel oddly optimistic, so I figured I’d spread the cheer. It’s been somewhat quieter than usual in my little corner of Mozilla, as many of my colleagues were busy preparing for on our big announcements and demos at Mobile World Congress. This lull [...]

Simple analogies as taglines are dangerous: do better

“It’s like YouTube for ___” For a non-investor, I end up hearing a lot of pitches.  I even make pitches of my own (not for companies, but for product ideas — same basic idea).  Around Mozilla, we tend to say that things are “like the web” or “very Mozilla”.  Those are equally fuzzy analogies, which [...]