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October 24, 2006 /4 commentsFirefox 2 Officially Launches

The moment has arrived, Mozilla haspushed the go-live button on Firefox 2. The new final 2.0 version of the browser is now available for everyone to download.
Read/WriteWeb has been actively covering the launch, most recently witha pre-launch interview with Chris Beard - Mozilla Vice President of Products. We‘ve alsoreviewed the product and have additional notes onhow Mozilla plans to market Firefox 2.Digg andSlashdot have additional commentary.
For a look at the competition, you may also want to check outour comparative review of Internet Explorer 7.
And the R/WW coverage doesn‘t stop there! We have a couple of other in-depth articles coming soon, one about Firefox add-ons and a special one on a yet-to-be-disclosed topic ;-)
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October 24, 2006 /8 commentsFirefox 2 Launch: Interview With Chris Beard, Mozilla VP Products

This afternoon Firefox 2 will be officially launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, here is an in-depth interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President of Products). Subjects discussed in the interview include the growing enterprise usage of Firefox, the importance of user experience and security, Mozilla‘s theory behind Web feeds and why they haven‘t included an integrated RSS Reader, the growing add-on ecosystem, offline browsing, why this is a 2.0 release and not a 1.x one, and finally Chris tells us a little about the future of the browser.
Firefox growth
Chris started off with an overview of Firefox‘s market position. He said it is a global community and a public benefit organization. Their free and Open Source products attract:
100’s of active technical contributors 10,000’s of nightly testers 100,000’s of evangelists and marketers 70,000,000+ end-users in 40+ languages
Chris said there is strong demand and growth. Last year at this time when they released Firefox 1.5, they had around 200,000 people per day downloading it. Today that number is more like 350,000 and growing, which Chris attributes to strong viral and organic growth.
Firefox in the Enterprise
I asked Chris whether enterprise users are beginning to use Firefox more? Chris said yes, they‘re noticing that more and more. He said their focus is building products for individual users as opposed to enterprises or organizations, however they‘re finding that users are bringing Firefox into the enterprise with them - on the basis of security advantages, productivity gains [etc].
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October 23, 2006 /4 commentsAdobe Digital Editions Beta Launched - Digital Reading Market Hots Up

Following hot on the heels of theMicrosoft-powered NY Times Reader, Adobe has releasedAdobe Digital Editions Beta - a Rich Internet Application (RIA) for digital publishing and reading. The product enables users to acquire, read, and manage content such as eBooks and other digital publications. This market is ramping up quickly in late 2006, as theSony Reader is also in beta form currently.
Last week I spoke to Bill McCoy, General Manager of the ePublishing Business Unit at Adobe, to talk about the new product.
Adobe Digital Editions is designed to be a lightweight, standards supporting digital reader - and is focused on the consumer market. Bill said electronic reading "is reaching a tipping point" in the market right now.
As with the NY Times Reader, the Adobe product reflows content and makes readibility of e-content easier. The product is also cross-platform - working on PCs, mobiles, PDAs and dedicated ebook devices. Also the Digital Editions beta includes integration with Adobe Acrobat 8 and Reader 8, which can install and launch Digital Editions from within their user interface.

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October 23, 2006 /1 commentsfreenigma: Encryption For Web-Based E-mail

freenigma is a Firefox plug-in that offers e-mail encryption to a whole range of Web email systems - including Gmail, Yahoo!Mail and Hotmail/MSN. It is a product of Germany-based freiheit.com. freenigma came out of public beta at the end of September and is now open to all - but you still have to enter your name and email address to receive "an invitation" (which sounds quite ‘beta‘ to me). Interestingly, freenigma has also just announced a Professional Edition for corporate customers as well as a Microsoft Outlook plug-in - both to be released by the end of the year. So looks like they‘re expanding beyond just web email and into the enterprise space.
It is a compelling product, as privacy and security are among the two biggest concerns related to using the Web as a platform. Although I am an avid user of Gmail, I wonder sometimes about sending private information across the ether on a web-based email service. I‘m sure they‘re the usual slightly paranoid concerns of every single Web user, but a product like freenigma is positioned well to take advantage of those common concerns for privacy. See alsomy recent post on Web 2.0 security issues, from a report by Finjan.
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October 23, 2006 /17 commentsTop Web Apps in Sweden
Written byBjorn Fant and edited by Richard MacManus

Sweden is a nation determined to be an international competitor in the IT arena. IT budgets in the private and public sector add up to 5% of Sweden‘s total National Growth Product; IT and entrepreneurship are a huge part of the cultural agenda; and Swedish success stories likeSkype andThe Pirate Bay get a lot of attention in international media and on blogs. Despite all of this, there are relatively few Swedish Web 2.0 apps that stand out from the crowd.
A point of interest for all of non-swedes is that Swedish web apps generally use two domain extensions. The .se extension is the most common and used by serious enterprises. The .nu means “now” in Swedish and is used in various concept sites and hip companies. The extension was purchased from the small island kingdom of Nieu in the Pacific ocean.
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