Mark Finkle wrote, On 05.06.2014 21:50:
We have some ideas internally, but we're interested to hear what other
people think are good site suggestions for new users. We'd like to
consider sites that have solid value for new users, but also sites
that share some of Mozilla's values too. What kind of types of sites
would you like to see? News, Videos, Shopping, Social?
I would select the sites based on:
* Sites that provide high value, but are not well known
* Adapted to what mobile users want to do, on the road
* Not monetary reasons, i.e. not selling them as ads or
"partners"/"sponsors"
* Not merely popularity, to avoid strengthening an already developing
media concentration
* Not sites that are questionable, e.g. due to privacy issues, i.e. not
Facebook
I'd ask for suggestions based on a poll, with short rationale, then
select the most convincing submissions.
For Germany, personally, I'd suggest heise.de (best IT news in the
world), spiegel.de (investigative journalism) and handelsblatt.de
(unbiased news site, esp. economy) as news sites.
World-wide, maybe TED (inspiring ideas).
We are also considering an add-on API that would allow add-ons to also
create site suggestions too.
For an addon, what would be much more useful is to give some small,
high-profile UI space where I can show current information. Basically an
HTML page snipplet. Usually called a "widget". Can show news ticker, new
messages, etc.. I know I can already hook up tabs, but it would be good
to have several things (top sites, addons etc.) in one screen that's
directly visible whenever I open a new tab. I'm writing such a
notification addon for Fennec, and we don't really have any UI space
other than a URLbar icon. The "top sites" page layout with 6 boxes, each
populated either by addon content or a top site thumb/logo would be ideal.
Ben
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