Entrepreneur. Technologist. Former CTO Mozilla, CEO Silk Labs. Now
Why building a better browser doesn’t translate to a better marketshare I posted a couple weeks ago about Chrome effectively having won the browser wars. The market share observations in the blog post were based on data provided by StatCounter. Several commenters criticized the StatCounter data as inaccurate so I decided to take a look at [ ]
Disclaimer: I worked for 7 years at Mozilla and was Mozilla s Chief Technology Officer before leaving 2 years ago to found an embedded AI startup. Mozilla published a blog post two days ago highlighting its efforts to make the Desktop Firefox browser competitive again. I used to closely follow the browser market but haven t looked in [ ]
American Democracy is in a crisis. This week Donald Trump fired the director of the FBI, and Trump admitted on national TV that he did so because of the FBI investigation into his campaign. In his letter to Comey, Trump stated that he discussed with Comey on three separate occasions the status of the investigation into the [ ]
In 1994, Intel acknowledged a bug in its Pentium processor that produced incorrect results in some rare circumstances. Intel calculated that the average user would hit this bug once every 27,000 years. Consumers reacted quite negatively to this news, and Intel was eventually forced to recall processors worth some 500 million USD. Ever since computers were [ ]
There is a lot of activity in the neural network hardware space. Intel just bought Nervana for $400m and Movidius for an undisclosed amount. Both make dedicated silicon to run and train neural networks. Most other chipset vendors I have talked to are similarly interested in adding direct support for neural networks to future chips. [ ]
Brendan is back, and he has a plan to save the Web. Its a big and bold plan, and it may just work. I am pretty excited about this. If you have 5 minutes to read along I’ll explain why I think you should be as well. The Web is broken Lets face it, the Web [ ]
This is my first blog post since leaving my role as Mozilla s CTO 6 months ago. As you may have read in the press, a good chunk of the original Firefox OS founding team has moved on from mobile and we created a startup to work on some cool products and technologies for the Internet of [ ]
It is with mixed emotions that I end my almost 7 year long journey with Mozilla next week. Working with this team has been one of the peak experiences of my professional life. I am also extremely excited about the next chapter in that life. I am departing Mozilla to create a new venture in [ ]
In my February 23 blog post, I gave a brief overview of how search engines have evolved over the years and how today’s search engines learn from past searches to anticipate which results will be most relevant to a given query. This means that who succeeds in the $50 billion search business and who doesn’t [ ]
Search is the main way we all navigate the Web, but it works very differently than you may think. In this blog post I will try to explain how it worked in the past, why it works differently today and what role you play in the process. The services you use for searching, like Google, [ ]