October 15, 2009 - 10:19 pm
Since its official launch earlier this year, GetPersonas.com has attracted lots of attention and now features about 27,000 personas or lightweight themes you can install using the Personas Firefox extension, and it is ready to become one of the highlights of Firefox 3.6 when it is released later this year.
To make it an even greater success, Mozilla Labs is organizing a design contest aimed towards design school students. If you are one, you just need to create one (a couple of images) and submit it through the contest entry page by October 18th.
August 22, 2009 - 8:22 pm
Mozilla Labs has announced a new development contest, this time focused on Jetpack, the cool new Firefox extension that adds a whole new API and framework for developers to add new features to Firefox, but unlike extensions, it doesn’t require a Firefox restart to apply them.
The contest runs until October 15, so you have time to download Jetpack, learn the apparently easy API, think about something great, and win an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Black netbook. The runner up gets a prize package comprising of stickers and t-shirt.
See full Jetpack Lift Off contest details.
July 14, 2009 - 6:17 pm
Your dreams came true! You can now unleash your creative, make a cool design about how technology makes lives better (robots are welcomed), submit it to the People & Robots Design Challenge, and, you won’t believe this, win some cool prizes including $1000 in cash, a cool Roomba vacuum, Firefox T-shirts, and Firefox Oggio messenger laptop bags.
June 30, 2009 - 7:31 pm
Want more fun to celebrate Firefox 3.5? MozHunt is just for you.
As you surf around the web for more news about what’s going with Firefox 3.5 launch, you may want to pay careful attention and see if you spot one of several pandas hidden around in Mozilla related sites and blogs.
June 16, 2009 - 3:18 pm
With Firefox 3.5 final release approaching fast, Mozilla Labs is aiming to mitigate what usually becomes the main reason for not upgrading soon to the new Firefox: one of your favorite extensions is not ready for the changes, while encouraging creative development.
June 2, 2009 - 12:00 am
Firefox 3.5 will be fast. Twice as fast as Firefox 3 to be precise. The question is, are you in the same league? Not rendering pages or running web applications (now, that would be seriously cool), but in any other skill. That’s what Fastest Firefox is all about.
The latest Mozilla marketing project is asking you to submit a video of yourself performing some task really really fast.
December 23, 2008 - 9:58 pm
The winners of Impact Mozilla, a Mozilla marketing contest that called enthusiast users to submit their ideas to improve Firefox retention rate, have been announced.
Phani Kumar Vadrevu and Uttam Byragoni of India, are the winners with their “Fox for All” proposal that aims to make add-ons more visible and relevant for Firefox users by encouraging the development of extensions for large demographics, and suggesting them to new users via an Add-on Suggest feature.
As winners, Phani and Uttam will have the opportunity to lead this project, and take home a $3,000 prize for their efforts.
Congratulations to them!
December 10, 2008 - 12:20 am
Impact Mozilla, the Mozilla Marketing contest that aims to gather ideas on how to improve Firefox retention rate (number of downloads that get installed, ran, and kept running after thirty days) has entered its final stage with a call to the public to vote for his favorite candidate.
In the first round, participants submitted their idea as a brief summary of what it was about. A few days ago, ten finalists, selected by Mozilla a month ago, submitted the expanded version with details on business benefit, feasibility, and measurability.
November 5, 2008 - 11:30 am
Out of more than 300 entries for Impact Mozilla, a contest where participants propose creative ways to improve Firefox retention rate (the number of users who keep using it after 30 days of the first run), Mozilla Marketing has chosen and announced the 10 finalists (individuals or teams).
They are: Jeremy Glassenberg, Bruno Fleurquin, Luke Baxter, Alex Polvi, Phani Kumar V and Uttam B, Andrew Stein; Roberto Michelassi, Elena Gorelik, Mischa Lumiere, Eileen Buenviaje, and Jason Williams (student team from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business); Mohsin Afzal, Naveed Alam, Deval Delivala, and Feng Yuan Xu (student team from Haas School of Business); Pejman Pour-Moezzi, Ornwassa Siamseranee, Harvey Villarica, and Jacqueline Yuen (student team from Haas School of Business), and yours truly.
May 19, 2008 - 3:13 pm
Mozilla Support has announced the Firefox Screencast Contest, a competition where Firefox users and fans are invited to submit a screencast for one or more of the top 100 Firefox Support Knowledge Base articles.
The contest rules note that screencasts must be done with Firefox 3 on any of the supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), in English only at this time.
