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Since my thread was censored by Neo. We will post our comments here. But the Netscape editorial team is rumored to be completely freaked out, and they are starting to talk to outsiders.
It's unclear as to why the site might be scrapped or changed. Netscape.com and netscape.aol.com are controlled by different groups with AOL. It's clear that at the very least a turf war of some kind is playing a part. And since Netscape's primary champion, Jason Calacanis, left the company late last year to start a new company, it may leave the social news property without enough clout to protect itself.
Something seems to be out of reality here. Fomidable maybe we should just wait until things settle. Don't you think??
It is a viable concern. The tech community is well connected and where there is smoke there well may be fire. I hope it does not come to pass, but this may be a corporate reaction to the bias that exists currently at NS.
Bias, what bias? lol!!!!!
So what you're saying is that you're against the Constitution Of the United States, don't believe in freedom of speech, DO believe in censorship, and you believe that anyone not sharing your ultr-conservative point of view has no business airing their point of view and allowing others to decide for themselves; instead you should be able to tell everyone how to think and when?
Oh yeah, how come you don't mention those same Good Christians that insist anyone that doesn't believe like they do should be killed, ore are doomed to burn in hell? Oh yeah, that kind of shoots your point of view in the ass, so in good Christian Right tradition, you just left it out.
Have I got that right?
If you are going to run around thumping your constitution maybe you should insist on freedom of speech for both sides of a story. You might also thump your constitution to the beat of every one having the right to believe in their own religious ideals.
This is exactly why netscape is having people drop out. There is very little civil debate here anymore it is all Bush bashing or "neoCon" slamming.
Many Passionate and Controversial Comments from around the blogsphere during the past few hours since the story broke and spreaded
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/aol-may-ki...
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I will repeat the comment I wrote on the TC story:
Umm... who are all of these sources? I run the Netscape.com social news site now, and I wrote the text that you quoted in your article.
The cobrand launch this week was simply an effort to give a place to go for those who desire a Netscape portal experience instead of a social news experience.
The Netscape.com social news team is alive and well, despite your "rumors", and have extensive plans for 2007 and 2008 which are already in progress. We may exist in a different AOL division than the AOL.com team, but that doesn't make this a turf war.
I am speaking to the editorial team right now, and as they knew this portal was launching weeks in advanceâ;¦ they aren't "completely freaked out".
Where are you getting these sources/rumors?
If you are curious to know about Netscape.com, e-mail me at tom at newnetscape dot com.
Tom
So what's the plan for that newnetscape.com domain which seems empty at the moment?
Marcien Jenckes, SVP AOL Messaging, Community & Voice had this to say about this article:
"I want to echo Tom's post. Community has been a core element of both AOL and Netscape since their inception and will continue to be. As the text on the site explains, we wanted to give a more traditional portal alternative to the Netscape users who requested it. You can rest assured that social news will continue to be an important part of what we do."
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/aol-may-ki...