Christian Heilmann

Of flying cars and the greater good – my Firefox OS talk at 360i

Friday, October 25th, 2013 at 4:32 pm

Yesterday I visited the lovely people at 360i for the first edition of their inspired speaker series talking about Firefox OS, the greater good of the internet and how HTML5 got pushed by the need to build an operating system with it.

As always, I’ve recorded a screencast of the presentation and you can watch it on YouTube

The slide deck is available online, but doesn’t offer much that the video doesn’t. Here are the resources I covered:

I had good fun explaining our ideas and seeing what a bleeding edge design agency’s issues with new technology are. A very insightful evening.

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