Earlier this week, Mozilla Japan announced a new partnership with a leading portal site in Japan, NTT Resonant’s “goo” portal. “goo” has been a supporter of Firefox in Japan for some time and a few months ago they came to us with a proposal for a new distribution of Firefox to support their “goo Green Label” search service, which donates a portion of the funds generated by the search advertising to an environmental not-for-profit. Mozilla Japan was honored to work with NTT Resonant on such a project and we debuted the Mozilla Firefox for goo Green Label last Tuesday. If you are using Firefox currently, you can try the goo Green Label add-on for Firefox in English. It involves an eco/green theme, a new search plugin, and a small tree next to the home button that grows with the number of searches you do.
Nagai-san and Sawamura-san of NTT Resonant, who were instrumental in making this project happen, were also kind enough to be interviewed about this project after the press launch (unfortunately only in Japanese.)
Firefox と仲間たち 第 3 回 永井孝久さん・澤村正樹さん (NTT レゾナント)
The Japanese press was very interested in this new partnership and drew parallels between how people contribute to open source software and how others contribute to environmental efforts or projects. We were lucky enough to have over 20 articles written about the event online and at least 3 newspaper articles as well.
IT media
Web検索するたびに“ちょっとだけ環境保護”──Firefoxに緑のgoo版
INTERNET Watch
環境保護をテーマにしたブラウザ「緑のgoo版 Firefox」公開
IT Pro
「緑のgoo」と「Firefox」が合体，検索すれば環境保護に貢献できるブラウザを全世 界に配布
IT Pro（日経パソコンオンライン）
「環境保護ブラウザー」登場、Firefoxと「緑のgoo」が連携
CNET Japan
gooとMozillaが「緑のgoo版 Mozilla Firefox」–検索バーを利用するほど環境保護に貢献
BroadBand Watch
goo、検索の収益を環境保護団体に寄付する「緑のgoo版 Firefox」
Nikkan
ＮＴＴレゾナント、「Ｆｉｒｅｆｏｘ」上での検索で環境団体への寄付サービス開始
Mycom Journal
Greenfox登場? 環境保護がテーマの「緑のgoo版 Firefox」提供へ
Mycom Journal
検索すると環境保護に貢献できる「緑のgoo版Firefox」が公開
RBB Today
検索回数に応じて樹木が成長〜環境保護をテーマにしたブラウザ「緑のgoo版 Mozilla Firefox」
Mado no Mori
goo、Web検索するだけで環境保護活動に貢献できる「緑のgoo版 Firefox」を公開
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Kaori Negoro, Marketing Manger for Mozilla Japan, also interviewed the managers who were responsible for the Mozilla Firefox for “goo Green Label” project for the Foxkeh (Japanese) weblog.
フォクすけと行く Firefoxと仲間たち 第3回 緑のgoo（NTTレゾナント）
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A number of bloggers in Japan who often follow the movements of Mozilla in Japan were interested in this new effort and shared their thoughts on their blogs.
Ryuzi Kambe さん
リケン★ブログーさん
Piro さん
Amigomr さん
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Mozilla Japan thanks NTT Resonant and the goo team for what we hope will be a long-running and successful partnership to support their goo Green Label service.
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we’re over 150 attendees signed up for our Firefox Developers Conference 2007, June 16th, 2007 here in rainy Tokyo. We’re almost at capacity and we’re delighted that so many developers and community members will be joining us for a full day of discussions and presentations related to extensions and Firefox.
Gang Lu of Mobinode reports that Tencent has launched a Firefox plugin for their QQ service. This is important because QQ is probably the most widely used consumer Internet service in China.
Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk has a great overview of Google Gears.
I’ve been meaning to write up a quick report from the NILS Conference 2 weeks ago but I’ve just been swamped. I will get some thoughts out on that sometime soon but I wanted to quickly note that eBay has purchased StumbleUpon for $75 million in cash (the ‘in cash’ part is amazing too.) I often use StumbleUpon as an example of a business that got popular by starting as an extension to Firefox. SU was mentioned in our NILS presentation 2 weeks ago as a widely-reported rumor. Now it is fact.