HelpFirefox.com live: Swedish ad-page to raise $1 million for Firefox.STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The entrepreneur Sam Nurmi, founder of the largest Swedish web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. operator Loopia, today launched the internet advertising Delivering ads to Internet users via Web sites, e-mail, ad-supported software and Internet-enabled cellphones. Also called an "ad network," Internet advertising organizations act as a middleman between the advertiser and the Web sites and software publishers that display the ads. page HelpFirefox.com to sponsor the Firefox web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Each of the one million pixels on the page costs one dollar, and all revenues go to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation (body, World-Wide Web, open source) Mozilla Foundation - The body set up by Netscape in January 1998 to coordinate development of the Mozilla browser and to provide a point of contact. Mozilla Home. , which develops Firefox. Several companies have bought ads linked to their web sites already, and Sam has no doubts that HelpFirefox.com will be able to raise $1 million for Firefox during 2006. He vows to switch to the text-only Linux Lynx-browser in case of failure. "Today, Firefox is the best browser on the market. Its developers are doing an incredible job, but for Firefox to be able to surpass Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. with its unlimited budget, external funding is necessary. We will give them that," said the founder of HelpFirefox.com, Sam Nurmi, and continued: "Here's the opportunity for MySQL, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and all others who want to support open source to make a difference." The idea comes from the British student Alex Tew, who in the autumn of 2005 succeeded in enlarging his education budget with nearly one million dollars through his ad page TheMillionDollarHomepage. The Mozilla Foundation actively encourages donations. Firefox has been downloaded over 100 million times. Companies Active24, Crystone, Eastpoint, Ipwalk, J Sulo, Loopia, Nendea, NU Domain, Quality Unlimited, SEDO SEDO Sustainable Energy Development Office (Australia) SEDO Search Engine for Domain Offers SEDO Sociedad Española de Ortodoncia (Spain) SEDO Sell Domains .com and Troxo have already bought ad space on www.helpfirefox.com, for $10 000 after less than one day of sales. "A monopoly is a bad thing, particularly when it came about through unfair competition," said Sam Nurmi, referring to Microsoft having attained a monopoly in the browser market by spreading their web browser Explorer with their operating system. He continued: "Open source applications, on the other hand, are a positive and natural phenomenon, in an evolution directed towards cutting the costs of goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . Firefox is based on everybody's support and free exchange of ideas. Now we add ours, and hope to be just as persuasive sellers as Alex Tew. Web advertising has never been hotter than now. On our page companies and individuals will be able to support both Firefox and themselves. Alex Tew has shown that the expense for a few pixels was in most cases exceeded by far by the benefits of the resulting traffic." Sam Nurmi is the 28-year-old entrepreneur behind the web hosting operator Loopia, which was founded in the end of 1999 and through a policy of effectivisation was able to become Sweden's largest in five years. Since the beginning, Loopia's staff rely on Firefox and other open source-software. The company also sponsors the open source development page PHPsidan.nu. High-res pictures of Sam Nurmi are available on http://www.helpfirefox.com/about.php |
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