badkins

If FB really wanted to do something like this, I would think they would have a better chance by writing extensions to the existing browsers, rather than writing a whole new browser.

People do not switch browsers on a whim. But people install new extensions all the time.

I agree that it sounds like burnout to me. I went through this almost a year ago in my day job. My solution was to take a month off without pay. I barely touched a computer over the whole month. I spent most of the time painting my house, and visiting family. Overall, I think it helped.

We just applied for summer 11. We have a working product which solves the problem and is stable. It just needs an extra month or 2 of work to add scalability. No users other than beta testers.

we still have our fingers crossed for #2.

Since my company is building a plugin/extension for firefox, news like this makes me shudder.

I think a website to teach people to program could be very useful. However, I do not think videos are the best way to do this. People would want to see your examples in text on the screen so they can copy it, or just take their time reading and understanding it at their own pace.

Also, if the lessons are laid out in text, you will receive much more search engine traffic from people who are trying to figure out how to do something.