Rock Your Firefox, Mozilla’s add-ons application built on the Facebook Platform, launched a week ago today, and a lot has happened since then. We’ve had over 1700 people add the application with over 650 of those people adding at least one favorite add-on. Of particular interest to me is that although only 12% of the users joined in the last day, 82% of users have been active in the application in the last day – even those that added last week. I could put some of our pretty graphs here, but I’ll be lazy and just link you to these that are already done for me!
There have been a number of articles written about the application so far, and add-on authors are starting to promote the application as well.
I’ve started planning some milestones and assigning new features and bugfixes to them. I’m looking forward to seeing where the app goes in the upcoming weeks
I haven’t blogged in awhile, so I’ll try to recap the things that have happened since mid-July that I remember.
On Saturday, July 21, most of the interns took a trip to San Francisco to tour Alcatraz Island, followed by dinner in Chinatown. Pictures.
July 24 – 27 I was in Portland, Oregon for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention, where Mozilla was a sponsor and had a very large presence. Anywhere I went, people would start talking to me about how much they love Firefox. I had a great time meeting so many people.
The Friday that I got back, a few of us went mini-golfing (it turns out “putt putt” is not used around here). Then that Sunday, we took a trip to San Francisco and walked along Haight Street and explored Buena Vista Park to the top. We then passed through Golden Gate Park to Union Square. After that, we stopped by Coit Tower, Aquarium of the Bay, and Pier 39 before heading home. Andrew got some pictures of the sights and us.
There’s a lot planned for this week – Tuesday is the intern BBQ; Wednesday is the going away party for several of the interns (which I will unfortunately miss due to previous plans to see Avenue Q that night); Thursday is the San Francisco Giants game that we’ll be attending; and it seems like there’s something on Friday and Saturday that I can’t remember.
Last week at work was a big one for me, but I’ll talk about that in my next post soon.
The Second Annual Intern Basketball Challenge took place in Mountain View on Tuesday. Unlike last year’s challenge, the interns were victorious 26-24 over the full-timers (first to 21 by 1’s, win by 2).
I was able to record some video on my digital camera not intended for recording video for as long as the battery lasted, available on Youtube. I especially like what happens at 2:47 in this video.
On Thursday, the interns were victorious again in a game of dodgeball against the full-timers.
Special thanks to shaver for taking us all out to dinner after the basketball game.
Thanks to the Internet, I found out what happened in the last Harry Potter book a good bit in advance of the release date. It was cleverly hidden around every corner in images and jokes. I haven’t been keeping track of when the next book is coming out, otherwise I might have been on guard to what happened a little while ago. I decided to visit the Something Awful forums for the first time in awhile and found a plot spoiler as the name of a forum. I don’t want to know if it’s true or not, but I’m sure I will be seeing more of these in the coming weeks as it’s apparently almost release time.
In other news, I got my iPhone last weekend in Palo Alto. It’s really awesome for the most part. I’m not too happy with the built-in Gmail support. It pulls the last 25 emails from Gmail, regardless of whether they’re in the inbox or archived. I also learned that the picture the camera shows you after you take a picture is not in fact the picture it took. Several of my pictures of the Kwik-E-Mart we went to are blurry because I thought they came out fine.
I was really busy at work this week, and next week will be even worse, but hopefully rewarding. The week after that I’ll be in Portland for OSCON.
The last few days I’ve been in Tokyo, Japan to take part in the Firefox Developer Conference today, along with Mike Shaver, Mark Finkle, and Dan Mills from the US and Canada. I gave a presentation on Mozilla Add-ons and the add-on submission process and then answered questions about the Future of AMO with the most appreciated assistance of shaver. If you’re interested, my presentation is available here.
Photos and video from the trip so far are up. I’ll be heading home tomorrow evening.
I’d like to give a huge thanks to the folks from Mozilla Japan who did an amazing job of organizing the event today with over 160 people attending and still managed to help us get around the city the last few days. I had a wonderful time and learned a lot about the Firefox and add-on community in this part of the world.
I would like to take this opportunity to say that there was someone that looks exactly like me roaming around today and that any pictures you see are probably of him, not me.
