Group listening rooms are gaining popularity among tech-y office workers, like for example this room occupied by Gizmodo writers (and their groupies).
Screengrab: Wired.com

The club was dead. I’d almost forgotten I was there until someone started talking to me. But then the DJ played a new song and soon three people I knew were chatting amongst themselves, even though I’d never introduced any of them to each other.

This didn’t happen in some dingy meatspace dance club — it happened on Turntable.fm, in an online listening room created by urban omnivore service Foodspotting. One of the people I...

Mozilla has created a stir in the Firefox community by suggesting that the version number ought to be eliminated. The version number currently shown in Firefox’s "About" dialog has been filed as a bug. Instead of a version number Mozilla simply wants the box to read something like "Firefox checked for updates 20 minutes ago, you are running the latest version." Mozilla believes that eliminating the version number will reduce user confusion.

As is witnessed by an increasingly hostile thread in the mozilla.dev.usability group, pretty much everyone outside Mozilla seems to think eliminating the...