Nokia employees are now using Firefox—all 55,000 of them [Swedish]. Nokia exec Christian Lindholm says the deployment went smoothly. Thanks to Frederik for the link.

In other news, earlier this month I did an interview about Firefox with the German television program “Neues.” I’m told this will air today at 6:30 PM on 3sat, so if you’re in Germany, let me know how it goes.

Update: Looks like streaming video of the interview is now available, as well as an article—why do I look like a criminal leaving a courtroom in that picture? (That’s the front of Stanford.)

Yahoo announced last month that Firefox had made the big leagues, consistently ranking in their top 500 searches.

Google agrees: Firefox was its 4th most popular “technology” search term in the U.S. last month after hot generics like “mp3″ and “chat” and in the company of such explosive products as the iPod and Skype.

It was also the 3rd most popular term overall in Germany after none other than George Bush himself.

Meanwhile, our overall top ten reads like the top fifth of People’s annual Fifty Most Beautiful People. Perhaps this says it best: Germany’s #8 is a bastion of collaborative scholarly learning that seeks to expand the depths of human knowledge and protect the original democratic vision of the World Wide Web by wresting control of information from the powerful elite and delivering it to your fingertips. Ours is “games.” ‘Nuff said?

(I’m just glad “tsunami” managed to come in first, because I’m not sure where I would have moved if Britney Spears (or Pritney Spears) topped the list. Maybe to ikea in Germany—they seem to like it over there and it certainly looks more comfortable than my dorm room.)

Mark Fletcher takes home the 2005 Wired Technology Rave Award for his fantastic Bloglines service, which was recently purchased by Ask Jeeves. Congratulations, Mark!

Other notable winners include Kevin Sites for Blogs and Brad Bird for Film.

Full disclosure: I was nominated along with Ben for the Renegade award, which Howard Stern won.