David Kushner writes a delightful cover story, The Firefox Kid, in the Nov issue of IEEE Spectrum. I enjoyed it at three levels. First, it’s a nice story about how Firefox came about. Second, it describes Parakey – a cool tool that allows you to manage your desktop existence (contacts, files, photos, etc.) and your web existence (flikr, etc) in an integrated way. “Whether you make your changes online or off, there is one interface (avoiding the Outlook/Hotmail problem); everything is stored locally with remotes servers being synchronized when ever you are online”. The idea is to make file archiving, uploading or synchronization completely transparent to the user. I am already sold on this! Finally, it‘s a warm personal story about Blake Ross, the kid “who helped thump Microsoft in the browser wars”. Enjoy!
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