The word is getting out about the first 10 Netscape Navigators (people who took "the offer" to become paid bookmarkers). You can see their photos on the right hand column at www.netscape.com.
Here are the basic details, we hired:
1. Three of the top 12 DIGG users
2. The #1 user on Newsvine
3. The #1 user on Reddit
4. We hired a bunch of folks from Weblogs, Inc. (since we know and love them :-)
It is important to note that this is all an experiment. No one knows for sure if this model of "paying people for work" us gonna work. I mean, it's crazy to think that people could be paid to do a job and do it with integrity--that's just crazy talk. :-)
Seriously, the fact is that the top 10 users on DIGG are responsible for 30% of the front page stories on DIGG. That's 3% of total front page stories each!!! Think about that for a second... the top 10 users of DIGG do 3% of the work each--that is stunning. They get paid nothing but they are responsible for 3% of the total content on the home page. Wow. Like WOW, WOW, WOW!
My hope is that the first 10 Navigators do such an amazing job that we can extend our offer out to other members of the DIGG, NEWSVINE, and REDDIT top 10.
HOW CAN YOU BECOME THE NEXT NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR?
Folks have been asking me the best way to get a paid bookmarking job with us. The best thing you can do to get on our radar and have a chance of getting a gig is to participate in the new Netscape. Of course, being in the top ten on DIGG/Delicious/Reddit/Newsvine is also great. However, I'd also like to see more of these folks participating on Netscape as well.
... and you thought it would be a slow summer. :-)
UPDATE1: There is a story on DIGG about the new Navigators here. The DIGG community is supporting the three users who have left DIGG for Netscape!
UPDATE2: There is a Netscape story about the new Navigators here.
The first 10 Navigators: We've hired three of the top 12 DIGG users, the #1 user from Newsvine, the #1 user from Reddit, and a bunch of Weblogs, Inc. folks.
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(Page 1 of 1)2. What I'm wondering is.... how do you know you got the #1 users? I'm not sure about Reddit, but I am familiar with Newsvine and they have yet to publish a list of the top users. I suppose you'd make this claim no matter what popular users you were able to nab from those services.
Posted at 1:28AM on Aug 3rd 2006 by KBrack
3. Kudos on the new hires.
Posted at 2:55AM on Aug 3rd 2006 by doug
4. You keep mentioning del.icio.us yet you are yet to hire one of the del.icio.us "top taggers" i was wondering have you approached one of the top taggers listed here http://toptaggers.com/?cmd=top_taggers and what has the response been? If not, why keep mentioning that you are interested in del.icio.us users when you are yet to make a move to gain users from the social bookmarking "giant"... Is it because you aren't truely interested in del.icio.us and you are just listing it as to in some way distract away from the fact you are just trying to "excavate" digg users away from digg. (sorry for the bad pun)
Posted at 5:35AM on Aug 3rd 2006 by Melinda McBeath
5. I'm glad to see some familiar faces on that list. Hope this will all turn out well for you.
Posted at 7:23AM on Aug 3rd 2006 by TheAttacks
6. Hi, Melinda,
In all honesty, no one from De.licio.us has contacted us expressing interest. If you know one of their top peeps is interested, have him/her contact me: ck at newnetscape dot com
Cheers,
C.K.
Posted at 9:46AM on Aug 3rd 2006 by C.K. Sample III
7. After all that hooplah, it looks like your plan to get top contributors from other sites was a bust. You wanted to cherry pick twelve, but only five good contributors were willing to sign on, so you had to fill the void with seven underemployed people at Weblogs. A promising experiment but not a resounding success, in my view. Or was all of this just a planned P.R. stunt?
Posted at 2:53PM on Aug 3rd 2006 by Robert Loblaw
9. First of all, saying "The DIGG community is supporting the three users who have left DIGG for Netscape!" is either an outright lie or an example of the stupidity rampant in AOL. When those top 3 posters made comments in that thread, they got buried like I've never seen before. People were pissed, as they very well should be. You've perverted Web 2.0, if not the entire internet.
Posted at 4:49PM on Aug 3rd 2006 by urban
10. I'm not sure the top users are updated very frequently. Someone who was a low top user in a section had only submitted eight stories.
Posted at 10:53PM on Aug 4th 2006 by Brandon Bailey
11. I was a top Netscape Navigator for a while but then the list reverted to the old one; I think it may need to be updated.
Posted at 2:19PM on Aug 11th 2006 by Brandon Bailey
12. #1's from Newsvine and Reddit? that's big :)
Posted at 7:07AM on Dec 11th 2007 by Backgammon
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1. This is all well and good, but I still can't log into the new Netscape. Resetting my password just sends the welcome email message, not instructions about how to reset my password. Either something is broken or the new Netscape doesn't support Safari or Firefox on the Mac.
Posted at 11:00PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Neil J. Squillante