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Somewhere along the line, Microsoft went from being the 800-pound gorilla in the browser market to begging users to switch back to Internet Explorer. Now, Microsoft is running a "where's the love?" campaign to offer "free stuff" for users who download IE9. After all these years, hasn't Microsoft learned yet that it can't buy love? Is the company capable of competing on features at all?

Mozilla is not just thinking of putting together a mobile operating system, the open source project actually has a roadmap in place to bring a demo sometime in the first quarter of 2012. We have seen a bunch of would-be mobile OS competitors rise and fall in fortunes over the last year or so, but Mozilla might actually have the name recognition and engineering clout to make a real dent in the market.

Mozilla's mobile OS would be open in the truest sense of the term open. Open is what Mozilla does. Mozilla will be working on bringing HTML5 as a fully functional OS to mobile. A look at Mozilla's roadmap is below.

Klout's algorithms have recently depressed scores for many users. Jux released an iPad app. All of this and more in today's Daily Wrap.

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This week the Diaspora Project put its hand out to ask supporters for "$25 or whatever they can spare" to keep the project going. Raising money is not a particularly effective use of developer time. Instead of seeking funds from the userbase, the Diaspora folks should be knocking on Mozilla's door instead – and Mozilla ought to answer.

Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the "common good," it eschews the appearance of authority or hierarchy, and it often frowns upon capitalizing on one's own work, insofar as being exclusive. In practice, however, open source projects may look less like Big Brother from 1984 and more like Big Brother from reality TV.

Joshua McKenty's still-young career is, compared to those of other capitalist executives, surprisingly replete. He's led development teams for the Netscape browser, and is intimately familiar with Netscape's successors at Mozilla. His next stroke of luck was with the space program, helping to create and then lead one of the world's most successful cloud computing projects, NASA Nebula. His work with NASA spawned the open source community's most successful - and perhaps most important - project in the last few years, the OpenStack cloud operating system - and he sits on that project's governing body. In-between jobs, he just happened to pioneer an earthquake modeling system for the World Bank.

Mozilla is again releasing a new version of Firefox for Android as the company's mobile development cycle is starting to look a lot like that of its desktop browser. The new Firefox for Android brings developers more tools to integrate Web experiences through the browser with a select group of APIs and standards that should align well with the trends of HTML5 and mobile development.

Firefox for Android uses Gecko version 6 for rendering and has instituted several new HTML5 standards, such as offline storage and native JSON. Most importantly though it that Mozilla has instituted the WebSockets API for Firefox for Android, which should make solving communication issues and event handling for developers much easier.

The accelerated Firefox release cycle may be great for many users, but enterprise IT folks were not thrilled. To their credit, the folks at Mozilla eventually took the complaints seriously and founded a working group to address enterprise desktop needs. However, it seems clear that the Extended Support Releases (ESRs) will be second-class citizens.

The working group has made progress and come up with a proposal that would provide an ESR for Firefox. If it's accepted, ESR's will have life cycle of nearly one year, and a 12 week overlap between the ESR releases.

Yesterday the Mozilla folks released numbers and a "field guide" with sample code, tutorials and additional resources on Do Not Track (DNT). How's DNT doing so far?

According to a post by Anurag Phadke a bit less than 5% of Mozilla users have turned on DNT. This might be a bit low because the tracking for DNT is by IP address. So users that are behind a firewall that exposes only one address shows up as only one user – even if 5,000 users are behind the firewall.

AOL has been in the news this week with changing the face of tech journalism once again, as we wrote about here. So I started going down memory lane and the list of their acquisitions over the past couple of decades. It is an interesting selection of mostly misplaced investments. But what struck me was how AOL was in the right place, but not necessarily at the right time or for the right price. And many of these buys enabled Internet gazillionaires to flourish and found their own tech ventures later on that were key players in our industry.

Exactly what will end up being the very final, last word on the subject of Mozilla Firefox's expedited release system, may yet be seen. Yesterday, however, the Mozilla Foundation's chairperson, Mitchell Baker, weighed in with what appears to be an attempt at finality, albeit a dualistic one. On the one hand, Baker wrote, Firefox should be less like software and more like the Internet.

On the other hand, enterprises do count in determining how software like Firefox should continue to improve.