A deep dive into Mozilla Weave, an experiment to bring rich and personalized experiences across the web to users.

1. Integrating Services
with the Browser
Anant Narayanan
3 October 2009
EU MozCamp
Sunday, October 4, 2009

2. Mozilla Weave enables you to
have incredibly rich and
personalized experiences
across the web
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3. Why
•As more things move into the cloud, we
need to make sure things stay open and
transparent
•We need to be more than just client-side
software!
•In line with the Labs theme of innovating
in spaces which might become really
important & popular in the future
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4. How
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5. Our Focus
Sync
Cryptography
Cloud Services
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6. The Weave Sync Add-on
•0.7 released couple of days ago
•Really starting to ramp up to a beta-quality
release
•Great new UI (about:weave)
•A whole bunch of performance
improvements and the usual slew of bug
fixes
•Focus on Fennec Integration
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7. The Nitty-Gritty
•Incremental Sync
•Scaling clusters
•HTML/CSS/JS UI
•Open APIs and self hosted servers
• (third party clients, anyone?)
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8. Use Cases
•Backup
•Get up and Go
•Ubiquity of your data (No pun intended)
•Initial target data types:
• History, Passwords, Bookmarks Preferences
• Tabs, Form History
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9. Demo Time
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10. Let’s talk Add Ons
Sync
API
What is interesting to you?
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11. Long term Goals
Identity
Sharing
Notifications
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12. The Overall Picture
Services
Identity
Crypto
3rd Party Mashups
Sync
Sharing
Messaging
Firefox Fennec Others?
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13. Questions, Comments,
Suggestions?
http://labs.mozilla.com/weave
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave
#labs on irc.mozilla.org
anant@mozilla.com
We’d love to hear from you!
Sunday, October 4, 2009