Frequency a page is viewed (as a percentage of total views) vs. pages (ordered by frequency); data taken over the last 90 days. I guess there’s something to this “long tail” stuff after all.

TD;TR: Converting games to HTML5 is hurting the cause. We need more games written in web technologies.

OK, I might be a bit late to the party but the latest “web version” of Angry Birds, “subtly” advertising this time not itself but Wonderful Pistachios was the talk of the day on some of my mailing lists.

The main thing was that it requires Chrome to run. This is nothing new, but I really enjoyed the ingenious way of testing for Chrome in the first place:

From the start, WebFWD has been a global program. Not long after launch, we expanded to the UK, Greece and Finland. Then, a month later we added a team in Canada. The inflow of WebFWD applications reflects what we already know: the Mozilla brand resonates worldwide.

Remember those awesome pop-up videos on VH1? Thanks to Mozilla Popcorn, the new HTML5 tool for supercharging web video, the pop-up format is about to get a whole new lease on life.

Over the last few weeks, a few high-profile accounts on Identi.ca, like @methoddan and @jezra, were inexplicably locked out of the system. I'm currently analyzing the possible causes, but I wanted to give a general idea of what's going on.

Here are my current suspected causes:

As part of Mozillas WebAPI effort, we have been working with bringing a Vibration API to all devices that support it.

The idea with the Vibration API is to be able to give the user a notification, in a game or other use case, by telling the device to vibrate. It accesses the native vibrator and tells it how long it should vibrate.

Examples

The way to do this is quite simple – in this example the parameter is how long it should vibrate, i.e. the number of milliseconds:

FreedomBox Hackfest in NYC on Presidents' Day Weekend

We're having a hackfest and you should join us!

It's in New York on February 18th, 19th and 20th. There are a lot of
places we might make progress. Some easy ideas:

Since the advent of the Web, content ownership has been contentious. Innovators have been challenged with how to proliferate and extend their creative work in a world where content is tied to restrictve frameworks such as copyright.

The Desura game client is not only available for open-source-loving players, but also now for developers.