Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work.

Ryan’s article contains this quote from Nokia developer Oleg Romaxa:

“Nokia will use the best browser for the job,” he said. “Currently, we cannot make a full-featured and integrated browser with WebKit in mobile. But with Mozilla, we do not need to do anything, we can take existing models and API’s which are available. Also, NPAPI support is already in the Gecko web rendering engine. They are also concerned that WebKit is, to some extent, controlled by Apple, who are in competition to Nokia with their iPhone.”

I was inspired by one of Gen’s posts and I thought it would be worth it to make a post that contains some links to some great Clay Shirky talks.

Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration at TED in 2005. Even though this was filmed back in 2005 (before everyone knew what flickr was) he’s clearly talking about Mozilla. He doesn’t know it yet, but he is. As Mozilla is an organization that is an open source project, non-profit corporation and volunteer driven organization all the same time I think that we have come to know as instinct what Clay is talking about here.

Clay Shirky on Love, Internet Style. A short but fun video about Love as a building material. It’s great. Watch it.

John Lilly pointed people at a really good article in the New York Times by John Markoff about the Olympics as a hook to get Silverlight onto people’s computers. It’s a good overview and is worth reading.