Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Netscape.com

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Let’s see if this works…

    Love him or hate him, controversial blog-boss Jason Calacanis knows his linkbait. Brooklyn-born Calacanis, formerly the editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, made a “how-to linkbait me” post on his popular blog, which he writes with his trusty bulldog Toro by his side. (Jason is more recently known for being the impetus behind the relaunch…

  • A day in the life of a Digger

    The whole thing is pretty funny, but I laughed out loud at around 18 seconds left:

  • Meet your newest Digg friend

    It’s me! Well, at least if you’re signed into Digg, it is. As reported at TheGoogleCache, all you have to do to be added as someone’s friend on Digg is to get them to visit http://digg.com/invitefrom/yourname while they are logged into Digg. Visiting this URL adds you as their friend without requiring any confirmation, and…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week V

    My latest teaser for Netscape 9 is up at the Netscape blog: “Netscape 9 will include built-in tools to share, vote for, and discuss interesting things you find on the Web directly from the browser’s URL bar. […] We feel that having these tools in the browser by default will introduce the idea of social…

  • Ahead of the curve

    Business Week reports: “Later this year, Digg will launch a recommendation tool able to expose members to fellow Diggers who appear to have similar interests, says Rose. ‘Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you,’ says Rose. The site will identify those with like interests in part by the previous stories they have…

  • The A to Z of me

    I’ve been thinking recently that it’d be fun to see what domains are listed first in the auto-complete for my URL bar for each letter of the alphabet. Shall we? archive.org: a digital library of Internet sites. Most recently, I checked it to get a cached copy of the RSS 0.91 DTD. blog.netscape.com: the official…

  • A gentleman and a scholar

    C.K. announced yesterday his departure from Netscape. It’s really too bad; he’s been an incredible boss and an exciting person to be around. I especially enjoyed the caffeine-fueled afternoon when we created the Netscape Digg Tracker. Good times, good times… He’ll be sorely missed, but I don’t harbor any sore feeling towards him for leaving.…

  • Social Traffic Monitor: A WordPress Plugin

    I’ve just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first WordPress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to…

  • Where are Digg’s new features?

    On November 9, Wired Blogs ran an article “quoting” Digg founder Kevin Rose as saying that 20 new features would be added to Digg over the next month. (I say “quoting” because the phrase was not actually in quotes, but it can be deduced that Kevin said or implied it at some point during the…

  • An early Christmas present for Digg

    Merry Christmas, Kevin Rose!

  • Syndicate Netscape Videos on MySpace

    Until I get this feature added to the site, here is a little tool that will convert a Netscape Video syndication code to work on MySpace and other venues that don’t allow script tags. Paste the Netscape syndication code here: Is the video widescreen? MySpace-compatible syndication code: FYI: If you’re using this code on MySpace,…

  • ‘Scape-o-lantern

    I decided not to do a plain old “3 triangles and a mouth” this year: Instructions for making your very own Netscape jack-o-lantern: 1. Obtain a pumpkin, either by way of purchase or barter. 2. Remove everything that doesn’t look like a Netscape logo, either by way of cutting or stabbing.

  • Netscape is Hiring

    We’re looking for a designer and a software engineer. (That’s two separate positions, not an all-in-one.) If you’re skilled in PHP/MySQL and/or experienced at hacking the Mozilla Firefox codebase, I strongly suggest that you apply for the latter; I’ve never loved a job as much as I love working for Netscape.

  • “Netscape is my portal to nookie.”

  • SuperHiro

    I am so jealous of Ryan right now it’s not even funny.

  • Pedro on Netscape

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