This is my kind of musical… I hope Broadway is watching

Dan takes his tweets to the streets.

Mozilla is prepping a project to transform the extension ecosystem for their Firefox web browser.  The potential for new extensions will skyrocket as anyone will be an extension author in the near future because Jetpack will base extensions on common web technogies meaning if you can build a web page you can build a Jetpack extension.  Jetpack is very impressive, and two things are very exciting about it including not having to restart Firefox after a Jetpack extension install and the ease of use of the Jetpack framework to create new extensions.

Watch the video below for more information about Jetpack.

Mozilla Labs Jetpack – Intro & Tutorial from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Mozilla Labs Jetpack – Intro & Tutorial from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

If you watch this video in which CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman talks his in-laws through the most basic aspects of the net, you’ll either feel his pain or snicker in delight.

An excerpt from the site:

CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman’s in-laws live at the top of a mountain, are off the grid, and have missed the last 30-plus years of innovations in media. On Monday, they got satellite Internet installed. This is the view of their new dish from the deck of their mountain-side house.

I’m deeply entrenched in learning Objective-C at the moment due to my overwhelming obsession to create an iPhone application. However, within the past couple of months I’ve taken note of some interesting tools that rely heavily on JavaScript and HTML to allow developers (particularly web) to create mobile phone applications without knowing anything about Objective-C.

Today as I discovered an open source development tool called “PhoneGap” which allows a developer with JavaScript and HTML knowledge to build a mobile application.

From the PhoneGap site:

If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.

Take note that not only is this an iPhone development tool, but also Android and Blackberry.

The other is tool is called “Atlas” and it’s a development environment which is powered by Cappuccino and built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript.

These technologies are amazing, but they say something more profoundly important in that web developers realize that the future is on the mobile platform and they need to be there to stay relevant.  Thankfully they’ve decided to share these tools!

WiiSpray Teaser from Martin Lihs on Vimeo.

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I hesitated on adding this to the blog, but after I watched it I was amazed by the number of interesting facts:

LOL… Nice.