If your not doing so already, you may want to keep an eye on the Firefox Flicks Backstage blog. There’s a lot of cool stuff going on there and really interesting posts. I saw 3 of the flicks so far and they are awesome. Some real talent is taking part in this.
Definitely worth a read.
100,000,000 downloads. That’s almost 1/3 of the US population. Here’s another cool stat:
Countries Ranked by Population: 2005 -------------------------------------------------------- Rank Country Population -------------------------------------------------------- 1 China 1,306,313,812 2 India 1,080,264,388 3 United States 295,734,134 4 Indonesia 241,973,879 5 Brazil 186,112,794 6 Pakistan 162,419,946 7 Bangladesh 144,319,628 8 Russia 143,420,309 9 Nigeria 128,765,768 10 Japan 127,417,244 11 Mexico 106,202,903Source:census.gov
That’s right. Only 11 countries in the entire world have a population higher than the download count. And were not to far from just 10 left.
In case anyone else wants to play with the number of the day (hint 100 Mil), leave a comment with a statistic to show how large the number really is. If you can, also cite your statistics. If a few people participate, perhaps I’ll make a little poll so people can vote on what the most impressive way to show 100 Mil is.
Well, it’s not really a secret that despite Spreadfirefox.com’s great success, it hasn’t been firing on all pistons. There seem to be two camps, either people amazed by the project and its success and are blind to any shortcomings, and those who are quite the opposite. I’d like to look at a few things from a business standpoint rather than a geek for a moment (since I am a Business Major). A lot of suggestions have been given, some completely baseless, some completely off the wall and impossible to accomplish, and a few that are ok.
Got that? Well now it’s actually a little higher, and still growing.
Amazing. Just a year ago, nobody outside the tech community knew what Firefox or Mozilla were. Now yesterday someone recognized my Firefox TShirt. What a difference just a few months can make. Those 50 million downloads are starting to show as people are now starting to recognize the brand. We aren’t an iPod (yet), but were getting there. Just look at big Apple’s QuickTime (work with digital video, and you know it well) and it’s adoption rate. That is a good benchmark to compare against.
Checkout some of the stuff people have done over at SpreadFirefox leading up to 50 Million. Makes me think I need to get a poster. Those look pretty cool.
IMHO Benjamin Smedberg should make the list for wearing a Firefox polo shirt in some of the first pics holding his new daughter (congrats btw). There’s dedication for spreading firefox.
Fellow Jersey Guy Kevin Smith aka Silent Bob has a WordPress powered blog and a distinct SpreadFirefox “Get Firefox” badge on the lower right.
Apparently Silent Bob, isn’t so silent when you look at his site. One of my favorites just got a bit cooler in my book. Silent Bob rules.
[Hat tip, Matthew Mullenweg]
Matt Mullenweg just emailed me that he incorporated my changes for the firefox counter plugin. You can now get Thunderbird stats with the following code:
Another toy is still in the works (waiting on something still). Hopefully you’ll see something soon.
Everyone loves those Where’s Waldo books. Well, if your good at them: I NEED YOUR HELP.
That’s right. Apparently I’m either missing, or out of place in the Ad. There are reports of a few names not in alphabetical order, as well as a few inverted (Lastname Firstname).
Your odds are about 1 in 10,000.
So: Who here can find me? The PDF is here. You can use anything at your disposal to perform this task, eyes, supercomputer, etc. provided it’s legal ;-).
Go!
Sweet. 2X the glory, 2X the fun, 2X the exposure. Stinks being in school, if I was working in the city, and on the train, tomorrow would be a fun ride seeing all the NYT papers open on the ride in!
Oh well… back to studying.
I originally heard it was looking like sometime towards the end of November…
Anyone know when it’s set to happen? Has it been set?
CNET posted a review of Firefox 1.0, and of particular interest is this breakdown of their rating:
Setup and interface 8
Features 9
Service and support 7[Source: CNET @ 11/10/2004 9:20 AM EST ]
I want to draw attention to “Service and Support”. That’s where open source still lacks.
Firefox destroyed in marketing thus far when people said open source doesn’t advertise. I think we need a community driven solution for support to. Something better than a forum, IRC or a newsgroup (the last two, most of our target end users never have used, nor want to learn). We need an easy way to provide quality free support for basic issues. That is going to be critical if Firefox wants to be viewed as a 10/10 product rather than an 8/10. 8/10 is good. 10/10 is Firefox Good. SpreadFirefox.com shows a community can replace an entire company division. Now we need to spin it to do tech support.
Perhaps feeding a form of tickets into a forum like solution, let various users post answers, and a moderator after a designated period (4hrs or 10 replies) selects the best answer. That gets sent to the end user. User gets fun points, just like spreadfirefox.com. A point for every valid submission. 10 points for every nominated submission.