Opera CEO Prepares to Swim across the Atlantic 432
rRogta writes "Previously reported on slashdot here, Opera CEO boldly promises to swim across the Atlantic should the new Opera browser be downloaded a million times in the first four days after it's release. Well, they reached their goal and in this press release it says he's now preparing for the long swim."
How the heck? (Score:4, Interesting)
download it (Score:5, Interesting)
deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
how he'll pull this off (Score:5, Interesting)
nice PR stunt!
Re:How the heck? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:What about sales? (Score:5, Interesting)
Beware of... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:What about sales? (Score:2, Interesting)
In the last 30-40 years everything has become about the "brand" and how many people are aware of it.
Sales follow suit through natural course of action.
-SJ53
I think Opera is just trying to make sure Firefox doesn't chew away at it's marketspace as an IE alternative regardless of the fact that the full version of Firefox is free and Opera is not.
Re:How the heck? (Score:0, Interesting)
Re:Ummm... (Score:0, Interesting)
1. What's that about?
2. Where can I get one?
Re:What about sales? (Score:2, Interesting)
For REAL adventure see THIS... (Score:3, Interesting)
He wrote a series of letters that were sent back and published in newspapers and all of them are being republished in their entirety on his web site right now.
Ironically he also ended up having a Japanese businessman to name a whole line of sporting goods after him.
Re:How the heck? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Tragedy in the making (Score:4, Interesting)
There is a lake in the middle of the rift valley (the shores of which the original Icelandic Parliament used to meet on) http://www.randburg.com/is/thingvellir.html [randburg.com]
He could have just pulled a fast one and swam across the lake
Re:Ummm... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How the heck? (Score:3, Interesting)