After the successful Spread Firefox campaign in the US, Mozilla Europe thought it was time to start the same campaign right here in Germany.

Differences to the NY Times Ad:

• Alrighty, the ad won’t be in the NY Times, but in a major german newspaper.
• The donators determine which large newspaper this will (FAZ, Süddeutsche or Die Welt)
• The ad will be in german ;-)

More infos can be found on the official website: Firefox-kommt.de (the title could be translated as “Firefox is coming!”). Now I’m really thinking about donating to this campaign, too. I’ll keep you updated.

As already mentioned here I supported the Spreadfirefox campaign with my donation. And boy I’m not the only one, 10k is the final count accumulating 250.000$:

Now I’m really looking forward to the New York Times Issue which will carry the ad. This will probably happen mid to late november.

As I took my daily tour through the numerous blogs I read regularly I found something really catching my eye. Chu Yeow talked about support the Firefox campaign by donating to their newest idea – an ad campaign which will buy a whole page ad in the New York Times when the big 1.0 drops, with the “side effect” that this ad will include all the names of the donators making this ad possible.

So I thought this is a great idea, and to help Chu Yeow out a little I made my donation via his donation link – if you would like to donate feel free to use this link which can earn him a t-shirt signed by the firefox team :-)

If anyone has access to the NY-Times’ print edition it would be lovely to get a scan or a notify so that I can go out an get a copy. Cheers :-)

Google has just put “Google Desktop Search” (beta) live. I guess I’ll give that a try, sounds like a promising application. More infos about it can be found here.

Found via Ensight.org