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Mozilla has announced the new thunderbird 3 as Mozilla Messaging

David Ascher, announced today the launch of Mozilla Messaging, Inc., a fully-owned Mozilla Foundation subsidiary (hence, sister of Mozilla Corporation) dedicated to advancing Internet messaging.As announced and discussed before, Mozilla is aiming to develop the Internet messaging area as well as the web browsing side and after years of developing Firefox and Thunderbird as Mozilla Corporation corporation, they found competition of both products for human, time and technological resources was slowing both products’ development.

On July last year, Mitchell Baker, then Mozilla Corporation’s CEO, announced that they would look for other organizational options for Thunderbird. Discussion ensued and a couple of months later it was decided that a subsidiary (nicknamed MailCo) would be created and led by David Ascher, with an initial $3 million in funding.

In the following months, David led the effort to make the subsidiary a reality while catching up with the present status of Thunderbird, now Mozilla Messaging’s base product, exploring ways to attain financial sustainability, and hiring, a critical task especially after Thunderbird’s main developers suddenly leave Mozilla a few weeks after the announcement of the subsidiary.

Mozilla Messaging board is integrated by David Ascher; Christopher Beard, VP and General Manager, Mozilla Labs; and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.

In the press release, Marten, is described as an old friend of Mozilla with plenty of high management experience. Sun, which recently acquired MySQL AB, is also an important contributor to the Lightning project, a Thunderbird extension that adds calendaring capabilities, and will be integrated with Thunderbird 3, targeted for later this year.

In a blog post, David Ascher, who will report to Mozilla Messaging board of directors only, provides some details on the spirit of Mozilla Messaging as a project as well as some details of his short and long term vision.

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Update Your Blog With Windows Live Writer Portable

Scott Kingery has launched this portable version of writer to help you update your blog on the go. Microsoft doesn’t officially release this.

Of course the simplest solution is to get a laptop and carry it around with you everywhere. But if you’d rather not lug a 6 pound machine and 23 pounds of accessories in a bag, you can install Windows Live Writer to a flash drive and run it from pretty much any PC.

Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.

Compatible with your blog service
Writer can to publish to Windows Live Spaces, Sharepoint, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and many other weblog services.

WYSIWYG editing
Writer knows your blog’s visual theme. So you can see exactly what your posts will look like as you write them, before you publish. No more wasting time previewing your posts online.

Rich media publishing
Writer makes publishing rich media as easy as sending e-mail. Insert and customize photos, videos, maps, tags, and lots of other cool content—then click the “Publish” button. It’s that easy.

Powerful editing features
Creating compelling blog posts is much easier with the ability to insert and edit tables, check spelling as you type, and format and hyperlink content at your fingertips.

Offline editing
Now you can blog anytime, from anywhere. Writer synchronizes drafts on your blog with changes you make when you’re offline, so you don’t have to worry about reconciling different versions.

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