Short clip: Mozilla adding applications and evolving email

November 18, 2008, 11:40am PST | Length: 00:01:20
Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, says that people are communicating differently using less email and more text messaging. As Firefox evolves, he plans to build whatever features users need into the browser. Eich predicts that eventually email clients could be entirely consumed by the web.

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Short clip: Mozilla adding applications and evolving email

Dan Farber: So, when can we expect to see a browser, an open source browser like Firefox that does more than just browsing, but encompasses applications, as well as the communications and collaboration, more collaboration for example in Firefox? Brendan Eich: We have two focuses at Mozilla. One is Firefox and that is the main focus, but we also have a Mozilla messaging, wholly owned subsidiary which is focused on messaging. They're building up Thunderbird, maintaining it, and evolving it. And they are also looking at messaging as a whole because email is even older than the web and it's a very challenging protocol in store and forward model that is very susceptible because of its economics to spam and things like that. So, we are focused through a division of two organizations on email and messaging as a separate project, but I expect to see cross fertilization. One of the thoughts that has come to the fore and we've observed is people do use webmail more and more. They do not need a fat mail client. Some people like it, some people don't, so we think the web could subsume mail and we see this certainly with mobile devices, people texting and using other forms of messaging. So, with Firefox in our add-on architecture, I think we are poised to sort of embrace all these things and incorporate whatever is successful among these as built in features of Firefox.

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