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Jason Calacanis Resigns

techcrunch.com — TechCrunch has reported that Jason Calacanis, everyone's favorite Digg basher, has resigned from AOL. His response at this time is "No Comment".

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  • noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+228it must've taken him years to get through to a customer service rep that was willing to take his resignation letter.
  • PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -4/+162"Jason Calacanis Says Adios to AOL"

    I said 'adios' to AOL four years ago.
  • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -20/+122Digg didn't invent the idea of voting on stories to align them in order. That said, there is a great similarity between the sites.

    You can mod me down if you must, but it's the truth. One could in fact argue that Digg inherits many ideas from Slashdot, but its community is 'for sale' ---something that rob Malda would never consider.
  • lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -4/+64"No Comment"

    Judging from the activity on the new Netscape.com, I think that might've been a pun.
  • ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49Digg needs to hire someone that knows how to form a good regex or two. Let's see, your two submissions weren't seen as dupes by the filter because yours didn't have the slash at the end of the URL like this one does... LAME. Fix this, digg.

    The other thing digg needs to do is cache a copy of the page when it is submitted, internally, so that they can compare the actual content of future submissions to existing content, via fingerprinting of some sort. Not too hard to do, and it would cut down on dupes.
  • deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46"---something that rob Malda would never consider."

    Were you not around when VA Linux bought SlashDot?
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/02/03/va_linux_buys_slashdot_org/
  • canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36will this beat "rumsfeld resigns" to 1000 diggs?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+31hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28Sorry, who?

    And who takes AOL seriously anymore?
  • rlombardo, on 11/05/2008, -3/+25No, for the record it did not come up as a dupe. I really don't care that much about submitting stories to Digg, because every time I've tried to, someone had already beaten me to it. If it had come up has a dupe I wouldn't have submitted it.

    I was actually pretty surprised at the time that it hadn't been dugg yet.
  • rovertly, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27"no comment"
    this guy is a douche bag of the highest order.
  • Ascendant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Quite likely. Miller seems to be the only topic that changes Calcanis' posting style from arrogant bravado to all sincere and weepy-eyed.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Basically, he was Jonathan Miller's bitch, and when Miller was replaced by the guy from NBC yesterday, Calacanis was doomed.
  • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Point taken. Netscape seems like the Titanic, but with the strange ability to draw people ON BOARD a dying ship.
  • Rivetgeek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18In other news, rats were fleeing a sinking ship somewhere in the ocean today.
  • Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@ misterpony

    I didnt say Calacanis was the only one with a rough sense of business.

    A lot of the commenters in your link (on Digg and Netscape) are right. Re-branding a website is an extremely difficult thing to do. Netscape's user base is much too broad to really be involved with social news.

    Think about Digg and Netscape like you would a term paper in college. Digg is predominately a tech news website, despite the other avenues they've taken in the past months. It's focused and it flows.

    Netscape is entirely different. Formerly a search engine, now it wants to be mail, search, social news, etc. All of these things attract a different demographic to a site already waning in popularity. To oversimplify it: Netscape doesn't know what it wants to be.

    Calacanis, for all the bragging and nonsense he did on his blog, didn't understand the importance of his user base OR the rationale behind people digging stories. It seems soem of the top diggers didnt either. (No offense at all to them...I enjoyed digging their stories when they were here. I'm sure they'll come back when they realize their stuff was appreciated.)
  • LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17@PatrickFisher
    but it probably took a year to cancel your account in the first place
  • randydandy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Resign A.K.A getting fired respectively.
  • Popdmb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Calacanis had reaaaaallllly bad business sense. I don't know that he's necessarily going to be missed. (from a financial perspective...I'm sure he has friends that will miss him for a couple of days)

    I'm hard on him due to his bashing of the Digg model, not Digg itself. If he criticized another website for "becoming successful on the backs of their main contributers" id be just as critical.

    The top users do it because it's fun to digg and share stories. Doing it for profit seems to take something out of it, and i can't explain what. While he had a nice idea, he completely misjudged the values and reasons people submit content to Digg, /., reddit, etc.
  • geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16http://www.calacanis.com/

    "I wouldn't want to manage someone like myself"


    Not even he wants to manage himself. This "resignation" looks more like a "firing". Welcome to the corporate world kid, now out to the curb.
  • sp1keNARF, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16as they would say on fark, calac0wned.
  • MellerTime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Bless you, sir...
  • jaredvolkl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I was thinking the same thing. I bet this hit's the homepage within minutes.
  • rlombardo, on 11/05/2008, -3/+14Does anyone think that his leaving is related to Jon Miller leaving AOL also?
  • moet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12good riddance
  • MellerTime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10The writing on the wall would like to speak with you about a Cease and Desist order from AOL...

    For what it's worth, if I were CEO of AOL now, my first order would have been to have him canned...
  • manatee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12That is AWESOME... he severely needs to be humbled... but, I doubt he ever will be. I'm sure he'll spin it in a new direction in his favor.
  • felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I wonder if "jdawg" will digg this story?
  • misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Don't glorify the top diggers too much. Not all of them are submitting just for fun and to share. Just recently, many top diggers have been proclaiming their new contracts with Netscape so they can get paid submitting what they used to submit to digg: http://digg.com/tech_news/Netscape_Snags_3_More_Digg_Heavyweights
  • Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Ok enough, this isn't fark.
  • sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I wonder if the Netscape Navigators are going to continue to get paid after his departure. He resigns after one year, that is darn fast for someone who was so enthusiastic about Netscape on his own blog.

    Calacanis, what happened? Maybe he wants to get in on that purportedly 200M he mentioned that would be the exit-money for the Digg founders, hahahaha!
  • zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Good bye, good luck, oh and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
  • totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Weird, he just announced a huge expansion of his "NAVIGATOR" program too.
  • zionKing, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14So long idiot boy!
  • cyn0sure, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Score one for the community
  • Recluse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Just what I was thinking too.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7the problem with netscape is all the pages on the front story have less than 100 votes or whatever they call them over there

    i dunno who this calacanis guy is but to me he seems like a pompous talentless *****
  • IMA_Sellout, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I am but i mean... how long until we see Calacanis and some random sitting on a couch, drinking beer on a weekly video podcast called "ScapeNation" or something to that effect. I mean the guy half-jokingly called his podcast on the blog JasonNation.
  • charlie55, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7it is good to see that guy fail, he is an unbearable *****. that time he was on twit, i was stunned that a person could have a personality so grating, i dunno how anyone could be in the same room with him.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11NANANA, NANANA, HEY HEY HEY, GOOD BYE!
  • blink21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@capn_caveman:

    good points. I'm very glad to hear your comments about your experience with netscape and digg. we all use different sites everyday to get our news, don't we? netscape, reddit, slashdot, fark, newsvine - all have their place. and the more popular they become the more people also come to digg, which is good for us all.
  • msaleem, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Wow. thedove. You are such a tool. Would you like to enlighten us as to why this is great news?
  • kilps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hehe ... all the netscape people are bleak about it http://tech.netscape.com/story/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-resigns-from-aol/#comments

    you know just looking at that comments page shows me how much they ripped digg off ....
  • capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The dove... I've known you to be a big supporter for digg and all things digg for a long time. That's great, I can honestly respect that. You obviously believe in the model of news that digg presents and I can not find fault in you for what you believe.

    With that said, I must disagree with you on a couple of points (disclosure - I'm a Navigator on Netscape)

    First, your post implies that people that are now employed by Netscape all have some personal agenda against digg to promote anti-digg content. You use the words sell-outs and defectors in a broad sense to make it seem like everyone that has moved from digg to Netscape under the navigator program has turned their back on this community. In my opinion, this is completely wrong. I'm sure that the navigators coming to Netscape from digg still read digg, like digg, and participate (although in a more limited sense) on digg. If you read down my comment history, you will find that not once did I personally ever bash digg just because I'm at Netscape now. I think if you read the comment histories of other users that are now at Netscape, you will probably find the same thing. Just because we took a job and are making a few bucks doing what we like to do doesn't mean that we all of a sudden just turned around and said #$##%$@# digg.

    Second, you suggest members of the Netscape team are digging with an agenda. I offer you this question, who doesn't digg with an agenda? People have things that they are interested in more than others. If I spot Netscape news then I will digg it. If I spot great science news (my personal favorite news of all), then I will digg it. The fact is, I want to see an article make the front page and read community discussion - for better or for worse. I'll often digg articles that I don't agree with at all, just to see the population of the website discuss it and share my own thoughts. I just don't think your statement about digging with an agenda holds true.
  • IMA_Sellout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4you know what... come to think of it... since AOL still owns the Netscape name, Netscape.com and everything else that belongs to Netscape, he'll probably just be on a couch drinking, looking at Netscape muttering on about the good old days and how he used to rule the internet.
  • Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5woah woah... insert "my" right after "digg"

    Didnt catch that, but you're all smart enough to figure it out


    edit: i'm ***** stupid... i mean switch "Digg" and girlfriend" and insert "my" before those.. oh ***** it
  • rlombardo, on 11/05/2008, -1/+4THe last post on his blog was about a podcast he did to talk about how he is feeling.

    "Did a quick podcast last night to talk about how I'm feeling." --from www.calacanis.com

    wow...
  • PSPon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No Comment
  • sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm more interested in hearing what the reason is why Calacanis left AOL, and if his successor will prolong the paid Navigator route. I was surprised by this news, given the enthusiastic writing about Netscape on his blog.
  • Amplix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'm so happy.. I just logged into digg girlfriend's login and dugg this with her account too
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