- Chrome Extensions Manager for Firefox — lets you run Chrome extensions in Firefox. I don’t think, though, that people choose Chrome over Firefox for the extensions (quite the opposite, in fact).
- Atlassian User Interface — Javascript HTML UI toolkit, opensourced by Atlassian. (via lachlanhardy on Twitter)
- Open Source Ethics and Dead End Derivatives — open source hardware is dealing with the problem of people changing open source designs but not publishing their modified source. Open source software hasn’t found an efficient and reproducible mechanism for dealing with this, though I’d love to be shown one. (via bre on Twitter)
- Let’s Make Science Metrics More Scientific (Nature) — excellent paper about the problem of the metrics for measuring scientific performance are based around papers and citations, but fail to take into account teaching, mentoring, communicating, etc. (via dullhunk on Twitter)
ENTRIES TAGGED "Firefox add-on"
Four short links: 26 March 2010
Chrome Extensions in Firefox, AUI Opened, Closing Open Hardware, Fixing Science Metrics
Worldwide Lexicon: matching up technologies and culture to end the language barrier
Essays by Brian McConnell of
World Wide Lexicon
and Ethan Zuckerman
of
Global Voices
describe the technical and cultural sides of developing communities of
volunteer translators.
World Wide Lexicon Toolbar changes the reading experience for the other 99% of web pages
World Wide Lexicon Toolbar meets my criterion for a piece of critical infrastructure: after two days with it I can't get along without it, and I plan to avoid any
browser that doesn't have it installed.
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