IVentures10 Partners with Mozilla

IllinoisVentures announced today a  partnership with Mozilla to take its IVentures10 program to the next level.  iVentures10, sponsored by IllinoisVENTURES, is a new kind of summer intern program for computer science students with a great idea for a software or web based start-up company. During the 10 summer weeks, student teams will develop their idea into a working prototype and lay the groundwork to launch their start-up. For more information, visit http://www.iventures10.com.

The program will now be open to students world wide interested in developing on the Mozilla weave/prism platform and coming to Champaign for the summer to start their company.  Weave is a open platform by Mozilla that will enable next generation web applications by giving users to control their personal information through integration with the Firefox browser.  Here is an example use case from their web site,

Personalization made portable - Myk likes to visit his Mom on weekends. He doesn't have a laptop, so he uses his mom's computer when he visits. He used to be annoyed because, though he installed Firefox on his Mom's PC, he missed having easy access to his favorite sites and RSS feeds, and having to remember all his account names and passwords. He logs into his Mozilla account and his personalized experience returns. And, just as importantly, when he logs out, all of the cookies, bookmarks and other information is cleared from his Mom's PC so that she doesn't accidentally log in to his email account or anything else he was browsing.

As a part of the partnership, Mozilla Labs people will come to Champaign to train students on how to best use the platform.  Mozilla will then promote the applications through their various channels at the end of the programb.  It will be exciting to see what new IV10 ideas are incubated and launched through this partnership.

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[Satin]

Thanks for writing this.