World Firefox Day

[LetMeStay]

Everyone was wondering how Mozilla planned to market Firefox 2.0 and it looks like they have revealed how. They have started the World Firefox Day and want to put your name in the new Firefox 2.0 that is scheduled for release this fall. All you have to do is enter in your name and email address and then enter your friends name and email address. If they download and install Firefox before September 15, 2006 then both of your names will be included on the digital Firefox “wall”.

Here are some quick things I thought were interesting from their FAQ’s page:

* This started yesterday, July 15, because it was Mozilla’s birthday.
* You can only nominate one friend so you need to make sure that they aren’t using Firefox.
* There will also be a wall at the Mozilla headquarters, and they plan on bringing it with to conferences and such.
* They are still working on the details of how to display it in Firefox 2.

Even non-Firefox fans have to give Mozilla credit for their clever marketing plan. The problem that I have is that I don’t know many people that don’t have Firefox.

[DrRosenRosen]

How nice. Do our spamming for us, and we'll put your name in our databases.

[LetMeStay]

I take it you're not a Firefox user

[DrRosenRosen]

I don't typically use it, but it's installed on my machine. Nothing against the product, it's just these new "spam" type marketing techniques are being used more and more nowdays.

Firefox is a fine product. I'll definately try out the new version before too much longer.

[LetMeStay]

2.0 is still in beta so you might want to wait for it to be officially released.

and it's an effective way of marketing. the users decide if they want to "spam" their friends. If you believe in Firefox enough, sending them an email to try it out is testimony to how good it really is.

[vol_freak]

Originally Posted by (LetMeStay @ Jul 16, 2006 10:27 PM)

2.0 is still in beta so you might want to wait for it to be officially released.

and it's an effective way of marketing. the users decide if they want to "spam" their friends. If you believe in Firefox enough, sending them an email to try it out is testimony to how good it really is.

If it's that good people would send it to their friends without the contest. In this case they would send it to their friends to try and get their name included.

That said I am a big firefox user but I think it uses more memory than IE. Of course, that could have to do with the 10 extensions that I use.

[LetMeStay]

Originally Posted by (vol_freak @ Jul 16, 2006 10:29 PM)

If it's that good people would send it to their friends without the contest.

we do