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• December 28th, 2007

  Netscape is dead; long live Mozilla.

  Tom just posted the official announcement: As of February 1, 2008, Netscape will no longer exist as a product-producing entity. “AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given [...]

• December 18th, 2007

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

  Some of may already know this, but I am no longer with Netscape (voluntarily, no hard feelings there). I felt that it was the right time to move on to something else, and in late November, I did so. I’m now working for Mahalo, mainly on Mahalo Follow/Social. If you’re up for it, you can [...]

• September 7th, 2007

  Netscape.com rebranding

  Tom announced last night the rebranding of Netscape (the social news site) on the Netscape blog, and of course, Valleywag TechCrunch got it all wrong (and even stopped by to gloat). I’m telling you, if TechCrunch was an entertainment blog, they would have reported Prince’s name change as a murder.

• August 14th, 2007

  One year at AOL

  Today is the one-year anniversary of my first day at AOL/Netscape. More importantly, I’ve also been blogging for a little over a year. This means that I can start taking the lazy way out and post

• August 9th, 2007

  Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated

  Hey, didja hear that Techcrunch may be shut down due to poor traffic and insufficient ad revenue? My sources say that Mike Arrington is totally freaked out about it. I heard about it from some guy that my cousin once met at a bar. After all, who needs legitimate sources when you can just make [...]

• June 26th, 2007

  AOL News and Netscape.com

  AOL News has undergone a redesign to be more “bloggy” (according to Reuters). Part of this update is that now they’re featuring the top stories at Netscape.com under the “User Submitted News” in the left-hand sidebar. I wouldn’t mind that section being a little higher up on the page though, maybe replacing any of the [...]

• June 4th, 2007

  C.K.’s start-up life

  C.K. Sample III describes the last two years of working in various start-up environments inside and outside of AOL. I found this part especially interesting: Aside: I must take a moment here to implore everyone at AOL: release the new Netscape Browser. I’ve played with early versions of it and it’s great. The best browser [...]

• March 26th, 2007

  Netscape now an OpenID consumer

  Netscape’s OpenID support is live. This release also greatly simplifies the signup process by removing the captcha and the request for other information that was previously required for registration.