valleywag.com — Jason Calacanis said, last week, that he was leaving AOL because Jonathan Miller, AOL's ousted CEO, was one of the only business mentors he'd ever had. But the true answer may be in the numbers, which are brutal: In two months after launching his Digg clone, traffic to the Netscape home page dropped a staggering 70%.
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Closed AccountNov 20, 2006
Calacanis and Nick Denton had quite the scuffle on the comments page. Blog nerd fighting look waaay more fun than WoW tributes or console wars.
laceroNov 20, 2006
I think Netscape also pays people to comment on their stories. Check out the first comment on the Rumsfeld story:<a class="user" href="http://politics.netscape.com/story/2006/11/20/downfall-how-donald-rumsfeld-reformed-the-army-and-lost-iraq/#comments">http://politics.netscape.com/story/2006/11/20/downfall-how-donald-rumsfeld-reformed-the-army-and-lost-iraq/#comments</a>By Edinbug: "What a fascinating read. First of all, it's very well written."WTF?!? That is so lame.
artelomeusNov 20, 2006
If he had read psychology books more often he would know that if you pay people for work they really like and would do without paying the enjoyment decreases because a motivation shift occurs.
mrteacupNov 20, 2006
God you guys are unbelievably stupid.If you think that any Digg-clone is doomed to fail, you are basically saying that Digg is doomed to fail. If you think Digg is a great idea, then why wouldn't you want a high profile imitator like Netscape? Surely there would be no greater validation of the concept than having it copied by everyone? I can see the headlines - "STARTUPS TEACH OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS!" What could be better than that? I'm not saying that they did everything right, but I think we should be cheering them on not ripping on them.But don't mind me. You guys go on with preserving your own sense of superiority now that you have achieved your lifelong ambition of sitting at the cool kids' table.
titlesaysitallNov 20, 2006
Jason was planning to only stick around with AOl for a year. Jason was thinking of leaving aroudn this time but when Miller left it gave him the go ahead to do so too. Typical of the majority here to spread bias on something they hate so much.
leopardsNov 21, 2006
The reason Netscape is no longer my homepage is, they quit updating the articles in the news sections!! I had articles From Sept. 9, 2006 still there in November!!! Then you would click to read an article and be taken to what looked a little like the Digg front page and the article you wanted to read was no where in sight and the search function didn't bring it up either!! Page was totally BROKEN!!NpmPK
mstrdiggNov 22, 2006
Not surprising. Who the hell uses Netscape anymore?
grinchNov 29, 2006
yeah netscape sucks