Firefox Commercial Contest 112
Robbyboy writes "Mozilla announced an advertisment contest for the Firefox web browser, according to Information Week. They are asking Mozilla Fans to send them samples and the winners will receive prizes. The Contest is hosted at the Spread Firefox site" From the article: "Earlier this month, Mozilla launched the first phase of its Firefox Flicks campaign, which was a testimonial Web site in which fans could sing the browser's praise in short videos. To date, several dozen of the amateur clips, which vary widely in quality and have been submitted from more than 20 countries, have been posted on the site."
Firefox strikes back... (Score:5, Interesting)
"Daddy, the computer stopped working" (Score:4, Interesting)
Father, mother, daughter, desktop computer.
Daughter: "Daddy, the computer stopped working"
TRACK to Daughter walking to computer with Father following.
CUT to computer screen. Screen full of blinking ads and popups. Hint of pornographic content, but not directly on screen.
Daughter: "Can you fix it?"
Father: "I'll try"
Father sits down at computer.
CUT to side view of Father at computer, illuminated by glow from screen.
FADE to side view of Father at computer, looking at screen, intermittent typing.
Daughter (offscreen): "Is it fixed yet".
Father: No, not yet.
FADE to side view of Father at computer, head in hands.
Daughter (offscreen) "I need the computer to do my homework".
Father (annoyed): "I'm working on it".
Mother: (offscreen): "Honey, is this going to take long"? ...
Not only humor (Score:3, Interesting)
I agree, on the Firefox Flicks globe, the videos I prefer are not the ones that talk about Firefox's features or "coolness", but the ones that are different and original. But there's plenty of other elements that are very appealing to people. For instance, I particularly liked a couple of videos from France, were some dude's little kids talk about Firefox. I don't even know what they're saying, but babies are cute, and the videos are cool to watch. Other stuff that sells: sexiness and puppies.
Hope somebody's taking note, I'm throwing gold at you, gold, I tell ya!
Re:humour is key (Score:5, Interesting)
when did this become about domination? (Score:4, Interesting)
Um...why?
Good products don't need advertisements. Bad products- or products indistinguishable from their competitors- need advertisements. When you have a lot of technically clued-in people encouraging friends, family and coworkers to use Firefox...and a market share that is going up...why do they need more?
I just don't get it. Open source isn't about taking over the world, but yet a lot of people seem to think that way. Guys (and gals)...that's exactly what got us in trouble with Microsoft.
Choice and diversity is GOOD, shockingly. What you should be doing is pointing coworkers to lots of different browsers and encouraging open standards support (ie, don't support browsers that have fussy behavior web designers must account for and/or don't support open standards.)
Choice and diversity encourage innovation, and assure users needs are met best. Here's a little parallel- I worked for an advertising agency that was owned by a holding company. The holding company is one of 3-4 of its kind, and together they own a massive percentage of the advertising firms out there. Yet the holding company frequently encourages multiple companies it owns to present proposals to the same client. Why? Better chance at getting one of -their- companies in the door is one reason, but another is that with 4 companies from "The XYZ Group"...well, the client has more selection, there might be a better fit between client and firm, and the client is liable to be happier with whoever they DO pick.
By the way- corporate needs aside, of course...do NOT ram Firefox, or anything else, down a user's throat. They'll quite likely resent it, look for excuses for it to fail or not meet their needs, etc. Where you can, be GENTLE and try to have it be their decision- not yours.
Re:Get high first (Score:3, Interesting)
Rawrr... Asiian hippy chicks... mmm...
Re:Fixing security holes should be the first prior (Score:3, Interesting)