http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/02/mozillas-firefox-3-wins-guinness-world-software-download-record/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:07:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/02/mozillas-firefox-3-wins-guinness-world-software-download-record/comment-page-1/#comment-819988 Pop technology: Colbert show gave Firefox 3 download rate a solid boost » VentureBeat Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:49:34 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=94548#comment-819988 [...] Firefox 3 already broke a Guiness world record when it launched last month and was downloaded more t.... Now, in a demonstration of the increasingly common intersections between web technology and pop culture, Firefox parent company Mozilla has some stats up that precisely calculated the impact of a mention it received on the popular Colbert Report TV show. Mozilla tracked the minute-by-minute download rate to try to detect the correlation between the download rate and the Colbert mention. When show host Stephen Colbert, in his comedically self-promoting way, said “Firefox 3 just got the Colbert bump,” the Firefox 3 download rate did indeed get the bump. See graph, above. You can watch the mention, below. [...] [...] Firefox 3 already broke a Guiness world record when it launched last month and was downloaded more t…. Now, in a demonstration of the increasingly common intersections between web technology and pop culture, Firefox parent company Mozilla has some stats up that precisely calculated the impact of a mention it received on the popular Colbert Report TV show. Mozilla tracked the minute-by-minute download rate to try to detect the correlation between the download rate and the Colbert mention. When show host Stephen Colbert, in his comedically self-promoting way, said “Firefox 3 just got the Colbert bump,” the Firefox 3 download rate did indeed get the bump. See graph, above. You can watch the mention, below. [...]

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