Musings of a hippygeek.
We spent over a decade standardising the Web of Things, but I believe it’s still missing a key component it needs in order to grow. The Web of Things started with the simple but powerful idea of giving connected devices URLs on the web, to extend the World Wide Web of pages into a web … Continue reading Putting the Web back in the Web of Things
There’s currently a discussion at the W3C about how web apps should be installed from web browsers. I won’t chronicle the whole twenty year long debate here, but suffice to say over the years browser vendors and OS makers have tried lots of different approaches. The current solutions being considered for standardisation in the Web … Continue reading How I think Web Apps Should be Installed
I'm excited to share the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol, a WebSocket sub-protocol for monitoring and controlling connected devices over the Web.
I have a vision of a smart building operating system. A whole building operating system, built on web technologies, which weaves together every sensor, actuator and human-computer interface in a building into a seamless user experience. This vision builds on everything I’ve learnt from working on Webian, Firefox OS and Mozilla WebThings. Rather than a … Continue reading My Vision of a Smart…
After four years of incubation at Mozilla, Krellian is proud to become the new commercial sponsor of WebThings, an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. Today we are…
For the last six weeks I’ve been enrolled in YCombinator’s Startup School, working towards the launch of a new technology startup. Today I’m excited to introduce Krellian, a software platform for…
In the two years or so since Mozilla announced the end of Firefox OS as a Mozilla-run project, the B2G source code has found its way into a surprising number of commercial products.
Mozilla is working to create a Web of Things framework of software and services that can bridge the communication gap between connected devices. By providing these devices with web URLs and a…
I remember at a team dinner once Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s Chairwoman and “Chief Lizard Wrangler”, talked about the importance of storytelling. She talked about how telling stories in the open source…
(re-posted from a page I created on the Mozilla wiki on 17th December 2014) Problem Statement The per-OS app store model has resulted in a market where a small number of OS companies have a large amount of control, limiting choice for users and app developers. In order to get things done on mobile devices … Continue reading Pinned Apps – An App Model for the Web