I never knew

I was a believer in Firefox or, actually, in anything but IE, I thought things had to change and would but I thought it would take a long time. Well, we’re still a long way from there but this OneStat study shows a 5.3% rise over 6 months. That’s fantastic since it’s still the beginning, gaining momentum. A lot of the “switch to Firefox, it’s more secure” articles came out a way along those months and 1.0 came out only a couple of weeks ago. A Google branded version or a Dell or HP shipping their systems with it could make a huge difference.

I am sooooo impressed with the whole Firefox situation right now. It’s been proven for a while that things in various fields can take off virally and it’s been proven for a while that Open Source Software can be very strong technically but getting both on one product, and a good interface and a nice looking site and advertising and documentation and a cool logo and a well organized support and promotion structure well, that’s just incredible. Great job everyone.

Too funny to leave in the linklog. You’ve been kicked in the nuts.

The New York Times has a couple of interesting multimedia formats they use on their web site, one of them is a slideshow with voice over. Today they have Jean-Pierre Jeunet with sketches from Un long dimanche de fiançailles. I’m always impressed with storyboards and sketches, some of these guys have quite a bit of talent at drawing.

Diary

What an insane and fantastic idea! Peerflix is a video club where members swap DVDs, you earn points when you send one and use those points to get others in exchange. The ones you have you own, you keep them forever or ship them back out to the next person on the list. A peer to peer video club, whodathunkit? Gotta love the interweb.































































































































[via Caterina]