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This page contains all of the important details for the New Tab Content Server or newnewtab.

Elevator Pitch

newnewtab is a project to enhance Firefox users' apps experience. When opening a new tab, they are offered their own (currently installed) tabs, along with one or more recommended apps.

It is planned for recommendations to be targeted, yet privacy-preserving.

Overview

Code name: newnewtab
Prod URL: TBD
Dev URL: TBD
Stage URL: TBD
Code Repo: https://github.com/mozilla/newnewtab
L10N Repo: TBD
Code: node.js
Product Owner: Todd Simpson
TPM: Fred Wenzel
Dev Team:
- Matt MacPherson [:tofumatt], Piotr Zalewa [:zalun] (server-side devs)
- Maxim Zhilyaev [:maksik], Ed Lee [:mardak] (client-side devs)
- Anurag Phadke (metrics)
IRC Channel: #newnewtab on irc.mozilla.org

Project Status

Prototype development:
- server component
- client-side, privacy-preserving preference extraction (add-on)

Meetings

4/10/2012: kickoff meeting
5/8/2012: recommendation API meeting
5/23/2012: backend dev, next steps
5/23/2012: roadmap meeting
6/8/2012: Presented at the Apps Show and Tell

Specs / Useful links

Bugs

Bugs are tracked on github:

Github issues for newnewtab

Apps/newnewtab

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