XitiMonitor has published a couple of days ago a new report about Firefox' market share in Europe, approaching 28%. Like I told ZDNet UK, "It's a nice way to get started on a Monday morning!"

One could argue over statistics for ever. I have met with the Xiti team a few months ago to get a better understanding of what they measure. Basically, they have what they call markers (actually small images) on literally millions of Websites, mostly in Western Europe. This means they get billions of hits every month, and then analyse which browser engine were used to display these images. There are a few caveats, as always, in such measurements:

• What they call Firefox is actually gecko-enabled browsers (mostly Firefox, but also Seamonkey, Epiphany and M-meleon);
• They measure hits, not visitors. There is a difference, in the sense that Firefox users are generally more advanced than IE users (they know what a browser is, and how to download and install software). Also, I understand that Firefox users are generally more likely to spend time online and visit more Websites.

To sum things up, XitiMonitor tracks "Gecko usage" more than "Firefox users". Both are correlated, but not identical. And both indicators are consistently going upwards (Thanks Percy for the graphs!) In some countries such as Slovenia, Firefox has passed Internet Explorer. Gerv even wants to launch a 'Hug a Slovenian' campaign

Just four years ago this week, AOL/Netscape/Time-Warner had decided to let go the Mozilla project, and the Mozilla Foundation was created. All of the employees paid to work on Mozilla were let go or reassigned to other tasks. Some of us decided not to give up, because the world needed a better, safer and more secure browser. While all of us hoped to make a difference, I'm not sure that many of us dreamt of seeing Firefox so successful on the market. Thank you to all of the contributors to the Mozilla project, who help build, test, promote and support a wonderful piece of software in close to 50 languages!

Flaming Lips - UFOs at the Zoo. Pitchfork sait encore nous donner envie.

Les annonces fournies par Google Adsense n'ont pas un design très agréable. On pourrait même plutôt dire qu'elle ne sont pas belles
et cassent parfois des design de blogs ou de sites qui eux sont jolis.Or il est tout à fait possible de les styler facilement via les CSS.

«On sait une chose sur les loups : c’est qu’on ne sait rien» :

A l'heure où des pontes de l'industrie se demandent comment faire acheter des disques, où l'on blâme le téléchargement, le marketing, la distribution, à l'heure où on ne sait plus comment donner envie d'un disque, Harry est là.
Harry le magnifique. Harry le plus grand. Harry les doigts magiques et la voix divine qui déjà en 1970 savait faire de la retape pour son album tout seul comme un grand.
C'est un morceau qui s'appelle Buy my album, une bande annonce joyeuse, légère de l'album... Je ne sais point. L'album (...)

Sourions un peu et parlons vacances : selon un récent sondage, réalisé par TNS Sofres pour le voyagiste Lastminute.com, le choix de sa destination (ou de ses rêves) de vacances aurait un sens politique !

Goût du clinquant, coterie d’amis riches et libéralisme à l’anglo-saxonne : Nicolas Sarkozy, tient plus de Napoléon III que de Bonaparte. En attendant la Commune … C’est ainsi que s’exprime Agnès Poirier, journaliste au GUARDIAN, de Londres. Intéressant de lire ce qu’écrivent les journaux étrangers sur le changement politique en France !

Une fuite chez Bloomsbury, le livre Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows est donc sur Internet. L'éditeur a réussi a faire supprimer le tracker de chez mininova.