Quick Update on What's New in Labs

Last week we launched major updates to a number of Mozilla Labs projects, including Weave and Personas. We also introduced a new project, Test Pilot, to propose a new user testing framework and community. 

Please do check them out and let us know what you think!

In less than six months, with little to no marketing or promotion, Personas has already gained a significant following with more than 200,000 unique users and growing daily. We're now working toward having a 1.0 release ready for the launch of Firefox 3.

Thousands of people are also helping with the early testing of Weave. The core data synchronization components are becoming increasingly solid, with bookmarks and browsing history securely reflected into the cloud and seamlessly synchronized across all of your devices.  We're aiming for a beta release of this base functionality (along with support for additional browser metadata) in time for Firefox 3 while work continues on building out the platform and its data sharing capabilities.

We also had an opportunity to speak with some bloggers recently, and you can see some of the coverage here:

• Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser (Rafe Needleman, Webware|cnet)
• Mozilla wants to put a Firefox in the cloud and your pocket (Ryan Paul, Ars Technica)

Special thanks to Dan Mills and his tireless efforts to advance Weave, Myk Melez for helping to take Personas to another level and one step closer to a production release, Atul Varma for putting together the glue that binds the Personas back-end together, and to everyone who has submitted bug reports, feature requests, and has helped with the testing so far.

Comments

[Ken Saunders]

The whole Mozilla Labs team deserves praise for creating great innovative products.
I'll admit that Personas is my favorite project so far. I see enormous potential for the use and growth of them. Way beyond 200,000 users.

[slearl]

Chris,

What is the RSS link for your blog entries?

[Faizi]

I agree with Ken, Personas proved to be a product with enormous growth potential