air mozilla live with mozilla's new messaging ceo
Tomorrow's Air Mozilla Live will be focused on the recent announcements around Mozilla's increasing investment in email and messaging. We'll have both Mitchell Baker, Chairman of the Board, and David Ascher, the CEO of Mozilla's new messaging company taking your questions, live just after 2PM.
The press continues to roll in around this exciting announcement:
- At The Boy Genius Report, Joshua Karp wrote, Mozilla launches Thunderbird into the wild
- At CNET Blogs, Matt Asay writes, Mozilla gets serious about email
- At ComputerWorld and PC World, Gregg Keizer writes, Thunderbird flies: Mozilla spins off e-mail client
- At Download Squad, Brad Linder wrote, Mozilla launches new e-mail initiative based on Thunderbird
- Heise Online, with no byline, published Mozilla spins off development of Thunderbird
- Lora Bentley, at ITBusinessEdge, wrote Mozilla to Spin Thunderbird into Its Own Company
- Andy Beal, at Marketing Pilgrim writes, Forget Zimbra, Gmail or Outlook - Mozilla Developing Internet Email
- Mozilla Links' Percy Cabello wrote Mozilla to spin off a Thunderbird subsidiary
- Stuart Turton at PC Pro wroteMozilla lets Thunderbird fly
- Platinax's Jan Harris wrote Mozilla invests $3 in Thunderbird e-mail client
- The editorial staff at Portal IT posted Mozilla Foundation Gets New Thunderbird-Focused Division
- RegDeveloper's John Leyden wrote Mozilla creates start-up to recruit email developers
- TechShout, without a byline, posted Mozilla announces New Mail- and Communication-centric Inititiave
- Alastair Otter at Tectonic wrote Mozilla pumps $3m into Thunderbird
- Gordon Kelly, of Trusted Reviews, writes Mozilla Launches 'Internet, Mail & Communications' Arm
- Ian Williams and Clement James from Vnunet wrote Mozilla readies launch of Thunderbird spin-off
- WIRED's Scott Gilbertson wrote Mozilla Thunderbird Takes Wing
- Ryan Naraine at ZDNet writes Mozilla pumps $3M into Thunderbird spin-off
- Mashable's Kristen Nicole wrote Mozilla Launching Open Source Email Project for Developer Community
- ZDNet's Dan Farber wrote Mozilla launches new company focused on email
- Richard MacManus, at Read/WriteWeb, posted Mozilla Launches New Email and Communications Organization, Similar to Firefox
- Om Malik, from GigaOM posted Mozilla To Spin Out Thunderbird As A Company
- At Ars Technica, Eric Bangeman writes, Echoes of Firefox: Thunderbird spun off by Mozilla Foundation
- Of CNET, BuilderAU, and LinuxToday, Stephen Shankland wrote Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with Thunderbird
(List compiled with help from Mozilla's PR team.)
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
After watching Heroes Season 1 in one week I think I am developing precognition. Seriously, I thought the announcement would be _made_ in Air Mozilla rather than commented.
Maybe after Season 2.
Posted by: Percy | September 18, 2007 12:07 PM
E-mail is so XXth century-ish, it is almost dead, crashed by the outstanding weight of spam (70%? 80%? 90%? 95% ?).
On the other, the e-mail user agent is still deeply at the center of the corporate desktop, we just cannot make without it in the short term.
This desktop application has to evolve, to be extended, to transform, to be prepared to the future:
* not to VoIP by softphones, it's too heavy, too complex, doesn't really fit IP networks, and you already have a well working telephone device on your desk
* but it has to manage the presence informations of your contacts, may they be colleagues, boss, clients, partners, family and friends,
* it has to manage your network of relationships has to be personalizable via group-making, per-user or per-group communications blocking and authorizing (privacy lists), personal presence and statuses information authorizing
* it has to receive by _push_ all the notifications and alerts you need to work and live (not by the outdated polling techniques, like old-school RSS/Atom and e-mail)
* it has to implement shared and collaborative real-time text editing
* it has to be encrypted from the client to the server, between two servers, and from end-to-end
* it has to be able to launch commands on distant entities by only one clic
* it has to discover the capabilities of its peers, and discover the services offered by the server
* ...
Yes, Jabber/XMPP is not only about chat...
Posted by: Nyco | September 18, 2007 1:46 PM
Agreed with Nyco. Plain email is quite obsolete, let's revive the once efficient means of messaging. Remember Phoenix? What coincidence.
Posted by: funTomas | September 18, 2007 11:04 PM
Your PR team missed me (again).
But here ya go since you've got nice list and I don't want to be left out.
Mozilla Millions go to Thunderbird
http://internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3700186
Posted by: Sean Kerner | September 19, 2007 5:47 AM