downloadday

Firefox 3 has been officially released!  Find out what's new in Firefox 3.  See a screencast of the new features of Firefox 3.  You have 24 hours left in order to take part in a global attempt to set a Guinness World Record.  Currently, 1,735,967 people have pledged to download Firefox 3 within 24 hours of its release.  I can't believe that only 1,000,000 people had pledged just one week ago.  I'm really proud of the amount of attention that Firefox 3 is getting, and I think it deserves every bit of it.

We have exceeded 1,000,000 pledges to download Firefox on the Download Day!  The current pledge count is 1,009,037.  Yikes!  US still has the most number of pledges (161,787), followed by Poland (75,112).  Brazil is nearly catching up with Poland (71,335), but shows a recent decline in speed compared to Poland.  You can watch the battle between Poland and Brazil here.  (Brazil is shown in green).

Now, you can show real-time statistics on the top 10 countries according to the number of pledges for the Download Day 2008 in your own website/blog!  How come?  Because the Pledge Counter Widget is born!

I had promised to add another type of statistics to the Download Day 2008 Statistics that I had created earlier.  Today, I was pleased to release the Pledge Rankings Graph.  This is a visual tool based on SIMILE Timeplot, which is able to create graphs comparing the progress of countries as their pledge rankings change while we approach the Download Day 2008.  Go and use it now!

I previously blogged about the Download Day 2008 project.  I'm quite excited about this, and I'm sure we can make a record which would be very hard to break!   So, I started to think, what can I do to help this project, apart from telling the people I know about this, and hosting a banner on my website?  I decided to create a simple web page where users can get some interesting statistics on the progress of project.  A few more hours later, Download Day 2008 Statistics was born!

Firefox 2008 Download Day is a SpreadFirefox.com project, which is intending to set a Guinness world record for most software downloads in 24 hours!  All you have to do is to pledge on their page that you will download a copy of Firefox 3 on the Download Day (the date to be announced later), and actually do download Firefox 3 on that date!  You can leave your email address in order to be notified of the exact schedule of the Download Day.