<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>As a person living in Canada running the en-US build I understand. Using the locale as the only key for choosing Tiles won't ever be very useful. Actually it is a problem in a number of other ways as well. You don't have the correct spell check dictionary, search engines, and general localization of the menu items. <br>
<br></div>We might have the opportunity to offer a local experience but right now there isn't a good system in Firefox for that. Are there solutions out there that others are aware of? We've been looking into ways we can correct for the incorrect locale but I'd appreciate input from people here.<br>
<br></div><div>As for choosing Tiles we're working on an open process, I'll give you my vision of it right now. (This is as I see it, not necessarily indicative of what it will be) The goal I have sketched out is a set of Tiles localized by the community but using whatever data metrics we can get back (via Telemetry or other methods) to verify our choices. Each region would likely have a list of more than 9 Tiles that rotate into a given build. After the community votes to add a new Tile we do a "test run" where all builds include the new Tile for some period of time (lets say a couple months) after which we look back at the usage data. This doesn't mean we have to live and die by data but ideally reinforce good choices with real information (if possible). Tiles which get well used could stay and poorly used Tiles which have run for a certain period could be removed from the list. <br>
<br>Assuming it's possible to create a dynamic system like this I would hope it gives each community much more control and awareness over the choices for their region. What we have now is just a baseline guess that needs validation. I've ignored a number of details here including getting clearance from websites to link to them and all the behind the scenes work of getting the correct images etc. but that boring stuff I can detail out later.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br></div></div>~ Bryan<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:n.nethercote@gmail.com" target="_blank">n.nethercote@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Bryan Clark <<a href="mailto:clarkbw@gnome.org">clarkbw@gnome.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> What has landed are kind of placeholders, we're experimenting with what how<br>
> sponsored tiles should be indicated. There are no sponsorship deals in place<br>
> for anything yet, we're looking to iterate with the design of our sponsored<br>
> tile indicator and measure if people find these valuable before considering<br>
> a business deal.<br>
<br>
</div>Thanks for the info. I guess Wired and Trulia essentially random<br>
choices that somebody made, and they don't have any particular<br>
meaning?<br>
<br>
It looks like the sponsored tiles will be tied to the locale. It's<br>
worth noting that this can lead to some unhelpful suggestions. For<br>
example, I'm in Australia so I get the en-US locale. Most of the<br>
suggestions are fine, but Trulia is entirely uninteresting, because it<br>
doesn't work outside the US. Canadians, New Zealanders, etc, will be<br>
in the same boat, and I imagine there could be similar cases with<br>
other locales.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Nick<br>
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