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Mozilla is organized to build an open Internet

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Mitchell Baker, chairperson of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corp., is a lawyer-turned-tech evangelist who in the early 1990s helped set up the legal department at Netscape Communications Corp., later bought by AOL. Netscape is known best for the Web browser that lost the browser war with Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer. About 10 years ago, she helped found the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization, and in 2004, Mozilla launched its Firefox Web browser. The Economist has described Firefox’s tale as a curious one. Edited excerpts from an interview with Livemint Radio: What is the curious tale? The curious tale of Mozilla? Mozilla... read more >>

Barack Obama, The Internet President

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  (EMAILWIRE.COM, November 16, 2008 ) Barack Obama truly is our internet President. His evolution into a groundbreaking political superstar was the product of many sweeping changes in American culture in the past fifty years. One of these changes is how quickly the internet is becoming a dominant vehicle in the pursuit of attaining huge amounts of campaign fundraising cash so critical to political campaigns here in the United States. Howard Dean: Early Adopter of Internet Political Fundraising Tactics In the race for the presidency in 2004 Howard Dean made Americans and the world aware that the web could be a place for effectuating enormous... read more >>