episode
5
In episode 5 we talk to Chris Messina of Flock. Please forgive the ocassional buzz and the muffled sound from the audacity noise removal.
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- Chris Messina works for Flock
- Chris is from the East Coast
- Chris has been with Flock since it inception as Round2
- Chris also worked on the SpreadFirefox campaign
- Chris worked for civicspace
- Round2 was started to create “professional” extensions for firefox
- Bart Decrem compared netscape ver 1 to firefox
- One of the goals of flock is to help people feel more in control of their computer
- Chris relates how hard it is to upload images w/ drupal and other tools
- Chris S. points out that Tim Berners-Lee intended for the web to be a two way conversation
- Josh asks why use the Flock breadcrumbs versus delicious or digg
- Chris M. tells us that delicious is in the next version, with more services to be supported later
- Two way bookmarking is tricky… Flock needs help with it, if you know how!
- Flock is looking for an “Imap” type protocol to sync blog posts, podcasts, and bookmarks to every browser you use
- Josh asks about microformats and how flock will support them
- We invite Tantek to come on the show, since he turned us down once before…
- Chris talks about the ability to enable data sharing through microformats
- Chris mentions using hcard
- Josh mentions agnda and asks about easy calendar/blog integration
- Chris talks about the Shelf and the ability to structure blog posts
- Chris warns that Ajax could be taken to far and used for things like making doom in the browser
- Josh asks about Firefox extension and if they need rewritten
- Chris says yes, most of the time it is just a simple script that needs run
- Chris S mentions the word “fork”
- Chris M ensures us all that there would be no forking
- Chris M tells us about the topbar
- Chris S talks about using the flickr topbar to publish images to his blog posts
- Chris M is working on a project that will support open source (similar to sourceforge)
- We talk about drupal and firefox raising donation money
- Chris tells us his opensource project is named CivicForge
- Chris talks about SuperHappyDevHouse and how they are going to start building tools for CivicForge
- Chris S asks about Flock viability
- Chris M says Flock will follow a similar model to Firefox and Opera
- Chris M mentions barcamp and the upcoming Amsterdamn version of it
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