Mike Shaver
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"Mike Shaver" is an Engineering Director at Facebook. He is also known for his work on several open source projects. He has been involved in the development of many of the technologies that enable interactive web pages, such as the JavaScript language.

Shaver attended high school at Lisgar Collegiate Institute in Ottawa, where he began working with Ingenia Communications Corporation, an Ottawa-area computer consultancy that later dissolved. His efforts saw him rise from a summer student who worked as a system administrator and software developer to chief systems architect and eventually Chief technical officer. Shaver eventually left to work at Netscape Communications and later zerøknowledge, Cluster File Systems, and the Oracle Corporation. Beginning as a visiting developer, he quickly rose through the ranks and eventually gained Internet fame by becoming a founding member of the Mozilla Organization in 1998.

He served as VP of Engineering and VP of Technical Strategy for the Mozilla Corporation where he helped people understand, build, and benefit from an open World Wide Web/Web.

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THE COMMON GOOD. It keeps the energy focused on the common good.

We wanted to emphasize the utility of the feature [dynamic bookmark folders fetched from a server] rather than the underlying formats [RSS, Atom, etc.].

We don't want to rush it to get it into that alpha. But things can move pretty fast in our world and if we come up with something that we like the looks of we might put something in experimentally.

It is another example of the energy that has returned to the browser marker.