As 2008 comes to a close, the industry reflects back on the past year and highlights the best and brightest technologies and news stories that came our way. This month Mozilla and Firefox received the following honors:
*eWeek Top 10 News Stories of the Year
*Mozilla and Racepoint Group UK won Best Technology and Consumer Electronics PR Campaign for Mozilla Firefox 3 launch at the European Excellence Awards 2008
*Firefox wins ReadWriteWeb Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008
*Mozilla Weave wins ReadWriteWeb Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008
*Firefox included in BusinessWeek’s Best Tech Products of 2008
*CrunchGear fans name Firefox 3 Best Browser, Peoples Choice Award
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On Monday, we announced the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. To date there have been more than 25 total articles. Reporters have continued to focus on how the updated browser includes the new Private Browsing Mode and how it allows users to surf the Web without leaving locally stored records of online activities.
Coverage highlights include articles in Ars Technica, Computerworld, InformationWeek, CNET, Technologizer, Mashable, PC Magazine, and Wired.
European coverage includes:
Poland: Gazeta.pl Technologie, PCWorld.pl, Twoje.pc, PCLab.pl
Germany: Markenpost, Big Screen, Linux Magazine, PC Professionell
France: eWeek, MacPlus, CNet, Les Numeriques
Italy: eBizItalia, Punto Informatico, HW Gadget, ZeusNews
UK: The Register, Vnunet.com, ProPortal.com, TechRadar.com
Spain: The Inquirer, Muy Computer.com, Geekets, GenBeta.com
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Last week, Mozilla and Zazzle announced a strategic partnership and launched the Mozilla Community Store! At the Mozilla Community Store, you can browse the gallery to shop from an array of community generated designs. Designs consist entirely of artwork supplied by Mozilla’s worldwide community, with all designs available for customization on over 400 apparel products including t-shirts, sweatshirts and tank tops. To get things started, we’ve seeded the store with over 50 designs from the Firefox 3 t-shirt design contest, but you can also start from scratch and add your own!
US coverage highlights include: TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Startupmeme, and Zazzle’s blog.
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This morning an exciting article was published in the BBC News that profiles Mitchell Baker and her role as one of the most influential women leaders in Silicon Valley. Valley Girls: Mitchell Baker looks at the history of the Mozilla Project and Mitchell’s role in founding and shaping its success.
She reflects on the start of her role at Mozilla. “At that point I knew that the building of the browser was a necessary step to have an internet that was worth living in,” she said. “I also knew [Mozilla] was not the obvious path to build a career but it was the obvious path to do something interesting.”
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Yesterday Mozilla launched Fashion Your Firefox, a simple Web application that customizes your Firefox browser based on your interests and online activities. The launch coincided with an event in New York City, which featured Mozilla and a handful of add-ons included in Fashion Your Firefox presenting their capabilities.
Fashion Your Firefox has been well received in the press, with more than 20 articles in the past 24 hours. Reporters have commented on how Fashion Your Firefox has simplified the add-on market overall, as well as included how Firefox just reached the 1 billion mark for add-on downloads.
Messaging has been strong around how add-ons are now more accessible to the “average” user. As VentureBeat’s Anthony Ha states, “Fashion Your Firefox could be a good introduction for users who want to dip their toes into the add-on world. They can find and download some of the best offerings, then if they like their improved improved browsers, they can go elsewhere to dig deeper.”
U.S. coverage highlights include: CNet, ComputerWorld, Lifehacker, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal Blog and Wired.
International coverage highlights include:
Spain: VnuNet, LaFlecha, Gen Beta, Visual Beta
Poland: PC Format, PC World, VBeta, NextMag, ZioBudda
UK: Stuff.tv, Pocket-Lint, Webuser, Digital Trends, Mobile Whack
Italy: HWGadget.com, VitaDigitale, Il Bloggatore, MyTech
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Today, Mike Beltzner and the Firefox 2 team were announced as finalists in the 2008 ISDA International Design Excellence Awards in the Interactive Product Experiences category. The ISDA is the voice of the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design.
This is a great honor in the design industry. Congrats to the team on their recognition!
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Yesterday we announced the release of Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. To date there has been more than 25 pieces of coverage, despite the buzz around the Apple Notebook announcement. Coverage is neutral with a strong focus on enhancements under the hood, and portrays the release as a testing ground for developers and Web designers. Those who have turned on Tracemonkey have been largely impressed by the performance enhancements. Generally, we’re seeing excitement in the industry around how the revitalization of the “browser wars” is fostering competition to produce the best possible browser.
Highlights include coverage in Ars Technica, CNet, InternetNews.com, BetaNews, CIO, Technologizer, ComputerWorld, LifeHacker and CRN.
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Yesterday we announced Geode, an experimental add-on designed to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 right now, ahead of the planned implementation of geolocation in Firefox 3.1. Future versions of Firefox (and Fennec) will support the new W3C Geolocation Specification, which adds the native ability for Web sites to request, and you to optionally grant access to, your location.
As of this morning there were more than 50 total articles posted on Geode, with the majority of the coverage in the technology, consumer technology press and blogsphere. Coverage has been primarily neutral with many reporters comparing Geode to Yahoo!s Fire Eagle and Google Gears.
We accompanied this announcement with a few use cases to illustrate the benefits of the technology, which helped provide a more thorough understanding of Geode as everyone was able to see the immediate benefit, making the exploration of the technology very “real”. However, we saw some confusion about whether geolocation would make it into Firefox 3.1 or Fennec, and difficulty understanding that when the beta comes out next week, users and developers could experiment with geolocation in that result.
Some highlights from the coverage include CNet, PC Magazine, Mashable, and New England Cable News.
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Follow the Inauguration festivities as well as President-Elect Obama with this Brand Thunder “Boom”! Comes with a video-based sidebar to keep on top of all Obama news.
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Ring in the New Year with your browser! This Brand Thunder “Boom” brings a New Years celebration to your browser with a real-time countdown to New Years 2009 included!
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