Comments on: How do we bring the web to where people are? http://christiansejersen.com/blog/2008/12/how-do-we-bring-the-web-to-where-people-are/ This and That, Bits and Bobs Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:00:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Surman http://christiansejersen.com/blog/2008/12/how-do-we-bring-the-web-to-where-people-are/#comment-116 Mark Surman Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:00:10 +0000 http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/?p=24#comment-116 I agree that the answer is yes -- Mozilla should care. Our mission is to make sure that the internet remains an open, participatory commons, and that means making sure the web experience is good, safe and flexible for the broad majority of people. If we don't the internet potentially fragments back into proprietary walled gardens, silos and locked down, platform specific apps, especially on platforms like featurephones. If we do care in this way, two questions come up: 1. What is the 'open web' that we want people to have access to no matter what kind of device they have? From a real billions-of-consumers perspective, what is experience we're looking for? What would success look like? and 2. How can Mozilla best leverage it's assets to make sure that (more) people on low end platforms have the web experience they deserve? Develop software for these phones (alot of negotiation w/ carriers and handset manufacturers)? Evangelize the importance developing simple, standards compliant versions of important sites that work on feature phones (e.g. m.tripit.com)? Educate consumers about what to look for, this will use the market to drive vendors to offer a better web experience (the people who use feature phones are probably the people who care least about being educated on such topics)? I don't have the answers to these two questions, but I do have an interest in the conversation. Our mission is to keep the web open, and that only happens if (almost) all the people who use the internet on their phones have access all that the web really is. I agree that the answer is yes — Mozilla should care. Our mission is to make sure that the internet remains an open, participatory commons, and that means making sure the web experience is good, safe and flexible for the broad majority of people. If we don’t the internet potentially fragments back into proprietary walled gardens, silos and locked down, platform specific apps, especially on platforms like featurephones.

If we do care in this way, two questions come up:

1. What is the ‘open web’ that we want people to have access to no matter what kind of device they have? From a real billions-of-consumers perspective, what is experience we’re looking for? What would success look like?

and

2. How can Mozilla best leverage it’s assets to make sure that (more) people on low end platforms have the web experience they deserve? Develop software for these phones (alot of negotiation w/ carriers and handset manufacturers)? Evangelize the importance developing simple, standards compliant versions of important sites that work on feature phones (e.g. m.tripit.com)? Educate consumers about what to look for, this will use the market to drive vendors to offer a better web experience (the people who use feature phones are probably the people who care least about being educated on such topics)?

I don’t have the answers to these two questions, but I do have an interest in the conversation. Our mission is to keep the web open, and that only happens if (almost) all the people who use the internet on their phones have access all that the web really is.

]]> By: Anup http://christiansejersen.com/blog/2008/12/how-do-we-bring-the-web-to-where-people-are/#comment-115 Anup Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:56:25 +0000 http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/?p=24#comment-115 Providing Internet solutions to people who are using feature phone is not just social service. It can also make Business sense with "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" concept by C.K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart. You just need to find that right Business Solution. So Good Luck. Providing Internet solutions to people who are using feature phone is not just social service. It can also make Business sense with “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” concept by C.K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart. You just need to find that right Business Solution. So Good Luck.

]]> By: christian http://christiansejersen.com/blog/2008/12/how-do-we-bring-the-web-to-where-people-are/#comment-114 christian Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:40:42 +0000 http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/?p=24#comment-114 @Mike Beltzner: Great link, I hadn't seen that post before. @Mike Beltzner: Great link, I hadn’t seen that post before.

]]> By: Mike Beltzner http://christiansejersen.com/blog/2008/12/how-do-we-bring-the-web-to-where-people-are/#comment-113 Mike Beltzner Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:15:15 +0000 http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/?p=24#comment-113 Hey Christian, you might be very interested in Dave Eaves' post on the non-integrated gap, and how that relates to Firefox's pledges: http://eaves.ca/2008/06/16/firefox-3-pledge-map-vs-barnetts-the-pentagons-new-map/ Hey Christian, you might be very interested in Dave Eaves’ post on the non-integrated gap, and how that relates to Firefox’s pledges:

http://eaves.ca/2008/06/16/firefox-3-pledge-map-vs-barnetts-the-pentagons-new-map/

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