We've made a lot of progress in the last couple of weeks with this button campaign and because it seems to be working, we're going to keep the tool going and Blake and I will continue to send emails to sites that may be interested in adding a button to promote Firefox.
If you're interested in helping with this effort, head over to the button tool and add sites and blogs that have been saying good things about Firefox. If you don't have any new sites or blogs to add, then spend a minute or two and help us gather contact information for the sites we do have.
Our goal was a bit high for the short period of time so we're just going to keep this effort going at a moderate pace until the 1.0 release, by which time we expect to have spread buttons across the entire blogosphere. Taking back the Web is no easy task, and we're doing it one person, one blog, one download at a time. We could sure use your help.
Posted by asa at August 14, 2004 09:25 PMI got my note from Blake yesterday. It's really good to get a kind, personalized message from someone appreciating your words. This is a really positive (and ingenious) way to market Firefox.
I was planning on adding a button before this, but this helped me stop procrastinating.
Posted by: Matt Mastracci on August 15, 2004 09:25 AMMatt, that's great to hear. Thanks for the feedback (and the button)!
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on August 15, 2004 11:05 AMI'm in the same boat as Matt. I had been thinking about it for a long time but the fact that you took the time to write a personalized message to me Asa and that someone posted my site on button tool convinced me to put up a firefox button.
Posted by: Robert Olson on August 15, 2004 08:49 PMRobert, that's great! One thing that's really cool about the Firefox community is that we have a lot of people willing to take the time to make personal connections. I think it really makes a difference.
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on August 15, 2004 08:55 PM