[vorbis-dev] a vorbis launch update

[Jack Moffitt]

The last two days have been amazing for Vorbis.  Here's a list
I've collected of our press:

In Print:

Wall Street Journal, Market section, back of the first page

On the net:

http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,6015,00.html
http://www.news.com/news/0-1005-200-2091466.html
http://news.webnoize.com/item.rs?ID=9484
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/16/2228244
http://www.cnetinvestor.com/newsitem-bloomberg.asp?symbol=91659277&Ticker=CMGI
http://tm.intervu.net/smirror/cnetradio/am06-21.asx (about 5 minutes in)
http://www.dmusic.com/news/news.php?id=2671
http://www.ragingbull.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=ICAST&read=96
http://www.advogato.org/article/56.html
http://www.xiph.org/archives/vorbis/0025.html
http://www.benews.com/story/3278.1.html
http://www.news.com/news/0-1005-200-1540213.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/04/11/118219.shtml
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2000/06/16/17383/5971

and more are coming :)

Also, as if the press wasn't enough:  at least two new vorbis sites:

www.govorbis.com
www.vorbiszone.com

Which prompted me to try and see what other domains got taken...

evorbis.com
ivorbis.com
myvorbis.com
vorbismusic.com
vorbisaudio.com
vorbisnow.com

all taken.  They are selling like hotcakes.

And now for the web stats:

I don't have the stats for xiph.org, but vorbis.com:

over 6,000 downloads of vorbis plugins and encoders
45,000 hits in two days
18,000 page views
6,000 unique users

The referers show a large amount of traffic from Japanese audio sites.

So thanks to Monty, the Ogg Vorbis hackers, and everyone else for making
it such a success so far :)

jack.

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