----- Original Message ----- > 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 These are good criteria. Our thoughts overlap quite a bit. We want to give smaller sites a chance to be promoted, while also sprinkling in some larger sites that people are more familar and maybe already interested in visiting. Kinda like your German news sites. They are well know, but rightly so since they provide strong value.
> 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). Thanks for the suggestions. Good perspective for me, given my US-centric environment. > > 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. We also have Home panel add-ons [1][2] that might serve your purpose too. And a way for you to display "banners" [3] on the Home page. These might not fit your use case ideally, but maybe you can use them for something interesting. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/Firefox_Hub_Walkthrough [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/Home.jsm/panels [3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Firefox_for_Android/API/Home.jsm/banner Finkle
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