1. There really is no finish line, it's (whatever IT is) a constant evolution - there's no beginning and no end, just the journey and points of interest along the way.

Posted at 9:18PM on Mar 14th 2007 by Dave Zatz

2. Was bored and thought I would go out and buy a playstation 3. So I looked at netscape.com and you site with the browser in the playstation 3. Netscape does not look good at all, and the only thing that does not work on your page is the netscape widget. No worries though, not many people will be surfing the net with this thing. Oh yea I am using a wireless mouse and keyboard along with the wireless controller.

Posted at 11:56PM on Mar 14th 2007 by Shane

3. But even back in the day the website for Netscape was always an after thought, the only reason it ever did well was because it was a default homepage that nobody changed. In fact you could say that aside from IE, the start of the end for Netscape was when the website became more important than the browser.

There's an irony of you showing the Firefox logo on top of Navigator, in a way the success of Firefox is a nice epilogue to Netscape. Even if you roll the site back into the browser I don't see that as a killer app, although like StumbleUpon or Flock it might have a niche audience.

Posted at 1:40AM on Mar 15th 2007 by Michael Pinto

4. I understand you're proud of the achievements here - there's an obvious emotional connection, not least to the people in team. However, I guess I'm surprised that you'd be interested in buying it. I wonder what your colleagues at Sequoia think about that as an idea.

If you put your VC hat on, and look at Netscape.com objectively - would you see this as a hot deal? Would you be actively trying to figure out how to get a piece of the action?

If the answer to those question is yes, it would be genuinely interesting to hear why. Why? Because it would presumably mean that you believe that Netscape.com is positioning itself for a new phase of exponential growth.

And that would be interesting to me, because I don't see *any* sign of that at all. That doesn't necessarily mean too much - I don't have any particularly deep insights into the fundamentals of the business. To me, as a casual observer though, Netscape.com looks like a site that's levelling off in popularity *not* as a precursor to exponential growth; but *rather* as natural part of a exponential fall in popularity over the last couple of years.

So, *as of today*, it doesn't look like a great investment to me. And for what it's worth, neither does Digg...

Posted at 4:45AM on Mar 15th 2007 by Simon Brocklehurst

5. As a former member of Netscape, I must admit I don't think you've done a whole lot with NSCP, now in fairness I was actively involved before AOL screwed up the NSCP Brand and I admire you for your efforts but its current format has a limited reach and I think needs an overhall

Posted at 10:42AM on Mar 15th 2007 by Tom

6. It has long been my position that most people have no idea exactly what Netscape.com is. Google Mail WILL one day look exactly like netscape.com.

Given your history of devious behavior, I really hope your decision to publicly admit your interest in Netscape means that you, Sequoia and Google already have a deal in place to spin Netscape off from AOL. see "Netscape Calacanis and Google" http://www.tempcity.com/bitchless/index.php?showtopic=4566

Posted at 6:27PM on Mar 15th 2007 by Marion Paige

7. Seeing the vision crossing the finish line would be nice but remember you had a huge hand in tuning that boat around from stormy seas. That in itself is a big accomplishment.

Posted at 4:51AM on Mar 16th 2007 by Simon Mestas

8. Though I won't say that you were welcomed with open arms, you did get well intended, good advice from many staffers in Columbus when you arrived to "rescue" us. You were just to arrogant to stop and consider it.

Posted at 10:50AM on Mar 16th 2007 by excaper

9. > Author: excaper
> Though I won\'t say that you were welcomed with open arms, you did get
> well intended, good advice from many staffers in Columbus when you
> arrived to \"rescue\" us. You were just to arrogant to stop and
> consider it.

Well, I never considered it a "rescue" mission. Fact was AOL was going shut it down and point the domain to AOL.COM when they asked me what I would do with it. From what I remember they asked like 20-30 folks what they would do with it. They liked the social news concept we pitched, and if you look at the stats they just don't lie. Netscape has gotten more "real" traffic from folks typing in "Netscape.com" into the nav bar in the past six months then in a long time. The three year slide was stopped, and it the 40% loss from email users going to AIM was corrected--so, if you count filling in that traffic loss you're basically looking at real growth.

Votes, comments, new accounts, and submissions are all going way up, and the new browser is going to really spike traffic and activity per user I think.

My intention was never to come off as arrogant, but that does happen to me sometimes so I'm not surprised. Sending in a hot shot CEO to Columbus might not have been the best move on a management level. However, I did listen and talk to the folks in Columbus, but the mandate was to do something very new with the domain. The past experience of running a portal wasn't really relevant in this context. The one exception being giving the users more time to acclimate to the idea. That one we could have done better, but getting a change done with the old Netscape team took weeks to months--something I blame on the big company bureaucracy more than anyone at the old Netscape team to be honest. So, trying to build a new service--which we did in three or four months--while trying to get changes pushed with the old team was just not in the cards.

Truth be told no one could save Netscape from falling from its former glory. The heights were so high that doing anything ambitious means by definition you're going to bring the brand down a little. I have a lot of respect for the Columbus team for fighting the good fight for so many years. They were stewards for brand and they did a noble job in dire circumstance. For that they should be commended.

best j

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