Mozilla Web Apps Platform Enables Developers to Build Apps that Users Buy Once and Use on any HTML5-enabled Device

Mountain View, Calif., Feb. 22, 2012 – Mozilla, a nonprofit organization dedicated to putting the power of the Web in people’s hands, today announced that the Mozilla Marketplace will open for developers to submit Web apps at Mobile World Congress. By building on open Web technologies like HTML5 and Mozilla-proposed APIs, the Mozilla Marketplace will enable developers to write one app that runs across devices and platforms. As part of Mozilla’s mission to keep the Web open and put people in control of their Web experience, users can buy apps once and use it on any HTML5-enabled device.

”The Web is the largest platform in the world. We are enabling the Web to be the marketplace, giving developers the opportunity to play on the biggest playing field imaginable,” said Todd Simpson, Mozilla’s Chief of Innovation. “By building the missing pieces, Mozilla is now unlocking the potential of the Web to be the platform for creating and consuming content everywhere.”

The Mozilla Marketplace enables developers to create and distribute applications that work across HTML5-enabled devices and operating systems (OS). Mozilla is advancing the Web as a platform and closing the technology gap between Web and native apps, creating new APIs and putting developers back in control of every aspect of the app experience – from easy development and distribution to direct consumer interaction.

The Mozilla Web Apps platform gives content owners, operators and service providers an unprecedented direct connection to their customers and limitless possibilities for consumer interaction and customized experiences, while also enjoying open and flexible billing options. What’s more, the “write once, deploy everywhere” nature of the platform will massively reduce the cost of creating, versioning and maintaining applications, enabling a truly open, standards-based Web that advances opportunity and innovation for all.

The Mozilla Web Apps platform will feature:

· The Mozilla Marketplace, the first operating system- and device-independent market for apps based on open Web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.

· New Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be submitted to the W3C for standardization.

· A new identity system for the Web that puts users in control of their content, tying apps to the user and not the device or platform.  

The Mozilla Marketplace will open for developers to submit Web apps at Mobile World Congress next week and will open to consumers later this year. The Mozilla Marketplace will feature apps in the categories of games, media, music, productivity and more. Come by the Mozilla booth at Stand 7B96 in Hall 7 at Mobile World Congress to see demos and learn more.

About Mozilla

Mozilla has been a pioneer and advocate for the Web for more than a decade. We create and promote open standards that enable innovation and advance the Web as a platform for all. Today, hundreds of millions of people worldwide use Mozilla Firefox to discover, experience and connect to the Web on computers, tablets and mobile phones. For more information please visit www.mozilla.org/ or our stand at Mobile World Congress in Hall 7 at Stands 7A38 & 7B96.

Monday this week when I received an expected package from Mozilla HQ via UPS – some swags to be given away during the Drupal Camp Manila 2012 Conference on the 25^th. But, to my surprise, there was a separate package delivered and inside was this black cloth thingy wrapped with the following note:

Thank you very much to Mozilla for sending this wonderful present to me! Just in time when the rains started earlier than usual this year.

What does action star Robin Padilla, former president Joseph Estrada, and cosmetic surgeon-turned-celebrity Hayden Kho have in common with Hollywood stars James Dean, Collin Farrel, and Robert Downey, Jr.?

Unless you’re a brooding man who can make women want to drop everything and land in your brawny arms every time something unfriendly comes their way, most men have all went through devastating heartaches at some point in their lives. We’ve seen it a thousand times—nice guys getting dumped and friend-zoned over stoic, devastatingly gorgeous, distressed men reminiscent of Damon Salvatore and Edward Cullen, who can make even blood sucking look sexy. What is it about bad boys that put sparkle in women’s eyes, glow in their cheeks, and blood rushing into their veins and other lovely parts?

No, this is not another story about vampires who sparkle in the midday sun while wearing outrageously pale faces and pouted lips. This is the truth that young boys long to discover, grown ups laugh about, and our grandpas love to revisit. This is the story of every Adam that will never be written in the history of mankind.

Three-time best-selling author and 30th National Book Awards finalist RJ Ledesma unravels how this and other crazy, perplexing phenomena are taking place, as he launches his fourth book “It Only Hurts When I Pee, RJ Ledesma’s Guide on Bodily Gases, Hair Loss and Pink Parts.” The book, distributed by Anvil Publishing, is a compilation of the ridiculously truthful, self-aware and highly comical chronicles of the less hygienic male species based on curious epic research, thorough investigation and, ahem, first-hand experience.

From the freshly squeezed brain juices of RJ Ledesma, the book and all its 167 pages tackles amusing topics and antics, including classic and epic details in the Pinoy dating and mating scenes, and male entertainment created simply by grimy fingers and a lack of good taste.

Wonder why bad guys often become the object of romance by women who, in RJ’s own word, desire “to increase the country’s current voting population”? Let the entrepreneur, multimedia practitioner, yogi and author of Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me (2008), I Do or I Die (2009), and Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Me? (2010) tickle your funny bone and usher you into testosterone land with his newest masterpiece guaranteed to make you pee to your heart’s content.

Enchanted Kingdom (EK), the Philippines’ premiere theme park invited me and my family to spend our early Valentine’s Day at Sta. Rosa, Laguna (some 38 kilometers south of Metro Manila) today.

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The celebration of Enchanted Kingdom’s I ♥ EK campaign continues with the grand launch of “The Music of Enchanted Kingdom” CD. Sing and dance to the tunes that will relive the music and entertainment of Enchanted Kingdom’s magic. Enjoy musical tracks such as "I Love EK" sang by EK’s Circle of Artists Lee J Atadero, Princess Lising and Alen Faustino, "It’s a Wonderful World" , "Happiness", "I Dream I Dream", all compositions of EK’s very own musical genius, Tats Faustino. Compositions of other famous writers such as Louie Ocampo, Ryan Cayabyab, and Charo Unite are also included in the album. Not to be missed out is a special song composed by Gary Valenciano entitled "You Got the Power" and sang by young talents, Vanessa Rangadohl, Rex Flores, and Jem Marquez.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your own CD of The Music of Enchanted Kingdom at EK souvenir shops now! The EK CD will also be available in Astrovision and Odyssey outlets in March. Bring home with you the tunes and magic of the country’s only world class theme park, Enchanted Kingdom.

For more information you may log in at www.enchantedkingdom.ph or the Facebook fanpage.

Thank you very much to the  UST TomasinoWeb (TomWeb) and the Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO) for inviting me as a resource speaker to the Junior <form> function() & .class (JFFC) today at the University of Sto. Tomas.

As promised, hereunder is the link to my slides.

It’s not everyday that someone gets up close and personal with a military aircraft, more particular from the US Air Force (USAF). I got the biggest surprise in my aviation career today when I was one of the fortunate ones to be toured inside a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during the 17th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta at Clark Air Field, Pampanga.

And I was allowed to seat at the Captain’s Chair inside the cockpit for me to feel the difference of the Globemaster III compared to other Boeing aircrafts!

Here’s the brief description of what the C-17 Globemaster III is all about:

The Boeing (formerly McDonnell Douglas) C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. Developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas, the C-17 is used for rapid strategic airlift of troops and cargo to main operating bases or forward operating bases throughout the world. It can also perform tactical airlift, medical evacuation and airdrop missions. The C-17 carries the name of two previous, but unrelated piston-engine, U.S. military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II. – Wikipedia

By the time this blog post is published here, this will be my precise location in the globe:

+15° 10′ 9.88", +120° 32′ 49.67"

15.169410, 120.547131