No premium was paid and no intellectual property was acquired by Mozilla. We expect a lot of innovation work from them, some Firefox-related, some broader, just like everything else in Mozilla Labs. They will be joining the Mozilla Labs team on January 16, 2008. Mozilla has hired 3 of the principals from Humanized. Update: Mozilla CEO John Lilly confirms his interest in Humanized, but says it is being done as a straight employment agreement, not an acquisition. Perhaps new desktop apps that work both online and offline and are separate from the browser? Whatever it is, we can’t wait to see what they come up with.
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Neither executives from Humanized nor Songza would comment on the deal.Įxpect to see the Humanized team, which is about a half-dozen folks, not all of whom will be going to Mozilla, put their UI chops to work on Firefox or other yet-to-be-announced software projects.
Songza, which is a Crunchies nominee in the best design category, was spun off as a separate company in December and is not part of the deal. While we don’t know the amount that Mozilla is paying for Humanized, we understand the acquisition is more of a talent buy. Humanized has been working on improving the UI of both desktop and Web-based software, with projects like Enso and music search engine Songza. We hear that the Mozilla Foundation is buying hiring three of the principle folks from Humanized, a small software user-interface shop in Chicago founded by Aza Raskin, the son of famous Apple interface designer Jef Raskin.
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