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The front page of today’s New York Times business section featured a story on Firefox 3.

Props are due to Melissa and the rest of our kickass PR team, and to John, Schrep and Mitchell for telling the story of Firefox 3 to the Times.

In this experience, as with all the other work we are doing to get the word out about Firefox 3 in advance of the launch, we view our role as helping to advance the broader cause of the Mozilla manifesto. And we know we wouldn’t have any story to tell without the amazing work, dedication and contributions of everyone in the Mozilla community this past three years on Firefox 3.

Onward to launch!

P.S. If you spy Schrep and Tristan in Munich and elsewhere in Europe this week, make sure to say hi. :-)

I’ll be attending the 2008 NetSquared conference in San Jose, California next week — I’ll be there for day one on May 27. I went to the inaugural conference in 2006 with Frank Hecker from the Mozilla Foundation and I’m excited to see how the event has evolved.

This year’s theme is “Mashup Challenge“:

This year’s NetSquared Conference will bring together a unique mix of people from the public and private sectors to develop and release Mashups designed to provide deeper insight into the social issues affecting communities around the globe.

Those “people” are you — members of the NetSquared universe working on behalf of communities everywhere and the technical experts who care about these issues.

If we’re successful, we’ll learn something about cross-sector collaboration, meet new and interesting people, and build a unique gallery of Mashups that citizens, schools, and community-based groups everywhere can learn from, replicate, and build upon.

There will be several Mozillians and friends of ours from Miro there, so if you’re going, see you in person!

… everyone who’s going to be using Firefox 3 very soon now.

Lifehacker just posted their list of the top 10 Firefox 3 features. At number one:

Via Lifehacker

I learned about the Mozilla student club at Jordan University through Issa Mahasneh’s group on Spread Firefox, the online home of our Firefox marketing community.

Hey Issa: this is a really well-done design. Great combination of an overall visual metaphor (a student’s desk), professionally-executed graphic design, and balance overall between your copy and imagery. Thank you for sharing this!

* For those of you who are students or interested in general in helping out with grassroots marketing projects, check out Spread Firefox and The Mozilla Blog to participate or just keep up with our adventures bringing Firefox to the world.