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Back from the Dead

It’s been way too long since I have blogged. Most of my summer was spent on a cross country road trip which you can read about here. I worked as we traveled which went reasonably well, but didn’t leave time … Continue reading

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Semantic Web Austin

GeekAustin hosted the Semantic Web Austin launch party last night. I was a speaker and got a chance to talk about Operator, Activities and the Microformats support in Firefox 3. I also took the opportunity to hand out some Firefox … Continue reading

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Updating OpenService for Microformats

This post details the ongoing work that Gustavo Garcia and I have been doing at http://microformats.org/wiki/OpenService_Extensions. Our stated goal is to figure out the best way to extend Microsoft’s OpenService specification to allow for microformat support (and possibly other functionality). … Continue reading

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Where are the microformats in Firefox 3?

With Firefox 3 RC1 available, I’m getting asked “Where are the microformats?” The answer is that there is a microformats API in Firefox 3, but unfortunately there is nothing available in the UI for this release. There are a couple … Continue reading

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Activities is out of the sandbox

Firefox Activities 0.7.1 is finally out of the sandbox. Go forth and install. Also, I’m making major progress on using openService files to create Operator actions. I should have something for people to see in the next week or so.

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Update on Activities, Microformats and Operator

I haven’t blogged in a while, so I wanted to give everyone a quick update on som of my projects. Activities Version 0.7.1 of Firefox Activities is waiting patiently to be moved out of the AMO sandbox. Unfortunately my 0.7 … Continue reading

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New Activities, Updated Operator and More

I’ve made version 0.6 of Firefox Activities available in the Add-ons Sandbox. If you like it, please review it so I can get it moved out of the Sandbox. This version has a working preview for Firefox 3, as well … Continue reading

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An Analysis of Microsoft Activities

People seem to think that because I implemented Microsoft Activities for Firefox that I am agreeing with Microsoft’s solution. That conclusion is not correct. I simply implemented Activities because I thought it would be fun. But in the process of … Continue reading

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Operator 0.9 is available

NOTE: There is a problem with the zh-TW, hr-HR, cs-CZ, pt-BR and ru-RU translations. I’ll post a 0.9.1 when I get this worked out. Unfortunately this makes Operator 0.9 unusable in those languages because for some reason Babelzilla replaced the … Continue reading

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Microsoft Activities for Firefox – New Version

I have an update for Activities that adds preview and fixes some bugs. If you just want that, skip to the end of the post. One of the things I realized as I worked on this extension is just how … Continue reading

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