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We witnessed a revolution my friends. On Tuesday June 17, 2008 over 8 Million people downloaded Firefox3 setting a new world record. Tech boards lit up with excitement and Twitters shared their joy and frustrations over slow servers. What we saw is true community coming together and doing something new. There wasn't a huge Madison Avenue Ad campaign to launch the new browser and the networks weren't exactly reporting on this phenomenon. Instead it was a group of Fans who lined up and waited patiently to get FF3, they told their friends, put up buttons on their blogs and emailed reminders to their lists. FF3 represents a true advancement in browsers- it's faster and more secure than the just plain icky IE. FF3 is the result of listening to users, adapting technology to what WE want and a great organization behind it- Mozilla.

As social networks continue to grow, we will see more events that are "net" driven. Imagine the power of good people doing good things- it will happen.

Some of the great coverage- TechCrunch "The Hype Worked"

A great addition to your Firefox3 - Feedly which allows you to integrate all your rss feeds- I like it better than Google Reader- lots of nice features.

Some Power tips for Firefox3 - From LifeHacker.com

If you don't have Firefox3 you can download it free over at Mozilla

For a little fun try typing- about:robots into Firefox3.

Power to the Social Networks- we are the news.

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