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.

March 23rd, 2007

Netscape to support OpenID later this year month

The announcement just went public that, starting on Monday, Netscape.com and My.Netscape will support signup/signin via OpenID, and consequently, AOL screennames (AOL hosts an OpenID for each registered screenname). I’ve used the OpenID registration/signin process in our QA environment, and it is slick. Kudos to Blaine and Trey on this awesome new feature. P.S. I [...]

March 20th, 2007

Netscape 9 Teasers: Week IX

My latest Netscape 9 feature update is up: “In Netscape 9, we’ve built upon Firefox’s option to load a bookmark in the sidebar by extending sidebar browsing to all links. In order to properly support this feature, we’ve enhanced the sidebar browser by adding a navigation menu, address bar, and link target toggle.” Check out [...]

March 13th, 2007

Netscape 9 Teasers: Week VIII

That is all.

March 13th, 2007

RSS Advisory Board

Now that it’s on the website, it must be official: I’ve joined the RSS Advisory Board as a representative of Netscape. Netscape was the original creator of RSS, which came about in order to allow sites to syndicate content to My.Netscape. Other board members include the lead of Yahoo!’s RSS platform, an executive vice president [...]

March 8th, 2007

My My.Netscape

Since everybody who’s anybody is doing it, here’s my My Netscape (click image below for full screenshot):

March 6th, 2007

Firefox 3 to include URL Fixer?

I just found out that Mozilla is considering including the functionality of my URL Fixer extension as part of the base Firefox 3 install. A great idea (if I do say so myself); however, they won’t be the first browser to do so.

March 5th, 2007

The Six Million Dollar Homepage

My.Netscape: a website barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s best personalized homepage. My.Netscape will be that homepage. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Da-na-na-na-na-na-na.