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Dear Mozilla, I'd love to help out with Pocket. As a concerned user, I even wrote this a few months ago http://constantbetasoftware.com/2016/09/02/pocket.html

by ttam 10y ago

Dear Mozilla, I'd love to help out with Pocket. As a concerned user, I even wrote this a few months ago http://constantbetasoftware.com/2016/09/02/pocket.html http://constantbetasoftware.com/2016/09/02/pocket.html How can I apply?

hkmurakami 10y ago
Well there's a Mozilla employee posting in this discussion thread, so you might start by reaching out to him. He'll likely have some suggestions.
callahad 10y ago
Pocket is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation, so Pocket retains a great deal of autonomy within their organization. Since Mozilla acquired the entire team, I'd start by reaching out to the individuals listed on https://getpocket.com/about/ https://getpocket.com/about/. Longer term, my understanding is that we want to use Pocket's expertise and data to help build a recommendation engine for the open Web (Context Graph: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Context_Graph https://wiki.mozilla.org/Context_Graph). This speaks directly to the problem of sites like Instagram which restrict links to external sites: users can enter via URLs, but they can't navigate away. (More reading: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blo...). If anything could help users route themselves out of these silos, it'd be a huge win for the openness of the Web.
- just_testing 10y ago
  Thanks, I'll try to get in touch with them. I'd love to help on the recommendation engine. I'm (for two years now) at the top 1% of users. I also happen to live in Brazil, to be a native portuguese speaker and the recommendation system absolutely sucks. I get a lot of articles regarding startups and Trump, but absolutely nothing in portuguese and/or about Brazil.

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Dear Mozilla, I'd love to help out with Pocket. As a concerned user, I even wrote this a few months ago http://constantbetasoftware.com/2016/09/02/pocket.html

by ttam 10y ago

hkmurakami 10y ago
Well there's a Mozilla employee posting in this discussion thread, so you might start by reaching out to him. He'll likely have some suggestions.
callahad 10y ago
Pocket is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation, so Pocket retains a great deal of autonomy within their organization. Since Mozilla acquired the entire team, I'd start by reaching out to the individuals listed on https://getpocket.com/about/ https://getpocket.com/about/. Longer term, my understanding is that we want to use Pocket's expertise and data to help build a recommendation engine for the open Web (Context Graph: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Context_Graph https://wiki.mozilla.org/Context_Graph). This speaks directly to the problem of sites like Instagram which restrict links to external sites: users can enter via URLs, but they can't navigate away. (More reading: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blo...). If anything could help users route themselves out of these silos, it'd be a huge win for the openness of the Web.
- just_testing 10y ago
  Thanks, I'll try to get in touch with them. I'd love to help on the recommendation engine. I'm (for two years now) at the top 1% of users. I also happen to live in Brazil, to be a native portuguese speaker and the recommendation system absolutely sucks. I get a lot of articles regarding startups and Trump, but absolutely nothing in portuguese and/or about Brazil.