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- wilwheaton, on 10/12/2007, -14/+108Hah. As I said when the new Netscape went live earlier this year, I don't see why Netscape and Digg and Reddit and Fantacular and Newsvine and all the rest can't co-exist and prosper as well.
This are a lot of tubes on the Internets, and there's room for everyone to drive their trucks down them; it's not a zero-sum game where one site has to do poorly for another one to do well, and ultimately the community is what its members make it.
I plan to keep on digging in addition to navigating, and don't see a single good reason why anyone else wouldn't do the same. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -11/+55"We're happy to have Wil on board" said both of Netscape's users. "I liked him in that space show with the leotards."
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38He's boldly going where about a half dozen of us have gone before.
- BloodJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -15/+43PATRIOT! (wtf?)
- wilwheaton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25It must be your birthday, because PopUrls and Netvibes do exactly that.
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27He's my favorite male Crusher that didn't get killed by Picard.
- poshsuicide, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Congratulatons, Wil! There's absolutely no reason for this ridiculous competition and odd sense of entitlement perpetuated over in these parts. Way to be above it all. I look forward to reading more regular submissions of yours again.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -13/+29Congrats Wil!
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -14/+24I'm going to agree with WilWheaton on this one
I'm a huge fan of Digg and have no reason to go elsewhere for social bookmarking(maybe an occassional fark)....but Digg is just home for me
its kinda like piracy, you've got your usenet folks, your torrent folks, your irc folks, your psp folks, but at the end of the day people choose one way or the other
in this case, I'm a digg guy
Digg 4 Life - leopardhunter, on 02/18/2009, -3/+13What? He betrayed what? Have you ever heard that Roddenberry once "sold out" Star Trek to a big corporation? Who do you think signed this guy's paychecks for his acting work there?
What's more, I don't see what gets people burned over Netscape, other than a certain C-person who is no longer there. AFAIAC, more competition is good. Digg is suffering growing pains right now, and a little prodding for Digg to improve would help.
Yes, Netscape did some bad things in the olden days such as the blink tag. Then MS got IE, and Netscape was good. Then AOL bought Netscape and Netscape was bad. Netscape open-sourced Navigator 5, and they were very bad. Then Netscape released Navigator 6, and they were good again. Then the Mozilla project released Firefox and Netscape was good. Then Netscape released Navigator with IE technology and they were bad. Then they changed netscape.com into a Digg-clone and now they are very bad again. Netscape is bad because they are owned by AOL, but TWiT's bandwidth is provided by AOL Radio, and that is good. I don't know what's going to happen next, but I for one will keep reading Netscape once in a while, and observe bemusedly as new lows continue to be set in the standards of Internet discourse. - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Phasers on shame?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Ha! it's probably what a lot of Diggers will be saying once (if?) this hits the frontpage. Frankly I don't see why various social bookmarking sites can't co exist. I know when the New Netscape launched it wasn't all that great but times have changed.
- NikZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9As one who enjoys reading Wil's journalistic adventures all over the 'tubes, I think I'll start using my Netscape account more now. News is news, right? Who cares where you get it from.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12wil wheaton is .. reading .. my .. post ... again ..
at this point wil, i feel like you and i go way back. - dankoleary, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Agreed homeslice, can't we all just get along?
- Aero1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Will, who cares about all of this. Tell us how it felt to kiss Ashley Judd?!
- manitoba98xp, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12We are the Netscape. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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I am Wheaton, of Netscape. You will assist us. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Good luck Will, I agree that both sites can live in harmony. I love Digg, and I'm on Netscape, but , it just doesn't feel like as warm and fuzzy as Digg.
- kidc, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Wow Wil I think you earned your Geek card like 25 years ago, you don't need to go flashing it around all the time... but seriously, congrats!
- romana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4oh wil, its all good mate. you get paid, w00t. who here wouldn't do the same? its not either/or situation after all, you can fark, digg, netscape. its a big internets, the tubes are wide enough, they will cope:)
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@wilwheaton:
could it be because the netscape offering is a complete ripoff of the digg model? or could it be because i don't want to see duplicate stories on both pages? or maybe it's because more ad revenue for digg means better quality?
nah, it's better that we all just get along. peace, love, and harmony, brother. - SweetChuck, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually.... "Wil it blend?"
- iburl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I've noticed this a couple of times lately... When I'm seeing the name Wil, i'm reading it Wii. Damn you Nintendo!
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8So obviously we need a meta-news-aggregator, which reads in digg, netscape, reddit, etc. and uniques on duplicate stories
- cks3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I remember that interview. The salary you were looking for was about $20K more than we were offering and you were looking to focus more on straight video production when the position was more half video / half writing.
- dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I for one like Netscape a helluva lot more since Calacanis is gone. It's almost as if the smell of stale farts has been lifted.
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I don't care what about this anymore...We all need money....Just be happy for them...
- zionKing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Sorry, but the correct response was "Will it Blend?" Let's move on to the next category: "Trite phrases less and less popular each day on Digg"
- DreadPirateWes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@zion Agreed. Although one phrase I will always agree with is "Arguing on the internet is like racing in the Special Olympics..."
- raynevandunem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Haha, talent?
As long as the asshat (Jason) isn't in the same building with them, Netscape (whatever's left of it) should be able to think a tad clearer.
And whoah, Wil Wheaton's on Digg? (Never got into Star Trek, too boring, but I read the Wikipedia article on him and his adventures on Slashdot and other sites.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Wheaton
For those who're not in the know. - Crowforge, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7He sold his ass to the founders
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@ Homunculiheaded
I concur - Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I know I still have a hard time making the leap from, netscape the only major competing browser to IE, to netscape the digg clone.
- djscruffee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wil wheaton is still around?
hell, forget wil. NETSCAPE is still around?? - bobbknight, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Is Wil that hard up for cash?
- SpollakPrime, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5I'm curious, I'd like to know what kind of deal they gave him. I talked to C.K. Sample a few months ago when Calacanis made a post about a video preditor position being available at Netscape. But CK informed me it was a Navigator job that had video production elements. He also told me they weren't going to pay a lot of money but the benefits were incredible. Apparently he's got his pet's health care through the AOL plan or something. It was the oddest interview I have ever had with someone, he spent like 10 minutes trying to talk me out of the position cause my production experience was better than what they were looking for. Oh well maybe Wesley inheritted Spot after Data died in the last movie and the AOL health care was a good deal to treat the cancer he developed after being exposed to all that Thaloron radiation in the last movie.
- deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7Assimilated by the Borg
- Canadiens1160, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1lol static warp bubble
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6@hotbeefman, yes, yes offering congratulations to someone obtaining a job position is utterly unacceptable and considered downright vile right?
- funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7If Wil was in Star Wars, I'd say he's gone to the Dark Side, but I can't think of any Star Trek analogy.
- sentedstevens, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0hey wil, are you mocking me?
- deviationer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3uhhh
W T F
***** netscrape
they need to get over they ain't the ***** anymore and die in a fire like AOL is doing. - TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3sounds like google news to me...
- foamweapons, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Good for him, tell him the Firefly tv series should of never been... wait a sec, uh, you're talking about Wesley from Star Trek... WTF?!?
- Jumangi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The link doesn't say what he's going to do.
Blog about how cool Netscape is? - camirillobrillo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Who gives a *****! It's Wil Wheaton. So what?
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -11/+8Wow, I haven't been to netscape.com in years, somebody stole the digg code.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Google News? feh! Not enough levels of abstraction!
- Ghostwheel, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3I like Digg better than Netscape. There is a reason to concentrate your time on the sites that you value. In that small way, you help them succeed - and the crappy ones go away. Why promote mediocrity?
If you need the cash, I understand. Just don't try to spin it as some altruistic pursuit. - Basketb926, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5I may no longer watch InDigital anymore. I preferred the previous 2 hosts to the current 3 hosts. Wheaton and this other girl aren't all that great.
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