History of FireFox, Making Open Source a success, Google goes to the moon, and Google in Court

Dave Rosenberg writes in IT Managers Journal on how one should go about marketing an open source project by looking at some of the success stories. He notes that the community is the key to the whole system and spending time and effort to get buy-in is crucial to the long term success.

46 years ago today, man first stepped on the moon. Google has marked this occasion by integrating some of the moon maps into its online map software. You can browse the various Apollo landing sites, zooming in and out as you'd expect. Google has noted that they are will be honoring the 100th anniversary of this human achievement by integrating fully the local search capabilities of the lunar colony. Incidentally they are hiring for the Lunar research center. Fancy working on the moon?

Finally, a story Andy found, has Google Maps coming to the rescue of a blogger in New York booked for a traffic offense. The traffic officer was claiming in court the road the chap was booked on was one-way traffic, but after whipping out his laptop and finding a WiFi connection in court he proved using Google Maps that the officer was telling porkies and the Judge threw out the case. I guess it won't be long now before we will be able to access the actual live video footage of a given event and time! Big Brother as it turns out, isn't the Government, but GOOGLE!!

• The voodoo of marketing an open source project
• Firefox: The alternative history
• Welcome to Google Moon
• Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket

tags: firefox  google  google maps  moon  dave rosenberg  

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