Comments on: Netscape Loses its Identity – Again

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:27:53 +0000

Friends don't let friends drink starbucks.

By: HP

HP — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:34:54 +0000

I use netscape, but just the email since I've had the email account since around 2001. I go to the site and just click on the mail link as soon as it's button loads. Yeah I add to the site's traffic that way I however rely more on Slashdot for information.
What's most sad about netscape is that it was such a great browser; now look at it and the state of it's website for that matter as well.

By: ashok pai

ashok pai — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 22:19:19 +0000

yes, its sucks and hurts to see netscape fall into corporate ways of martyrdom. aol sucks, and have toyed with netscape enough. close it down for ****'s sake. its really bad to see an icon that fought an evil empire like that of MS being asked to slave away for petty needs. AOL must die a similar death, and they are pretty well on the way. they deserve every bit of it.

By: Benji

Benji — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 11:42:50 +0000

David, Check out these links:

http://www.blogherald.com/2006/03/20/engadget-bust...

http://digg.com/technology/Engadget:_Busted_for_Un...

http://www.blognetworkwatch.com/2006/03/engadget_b...

This was not the first time either. The continuelly steal content from other sites. Jason's response was “It was a mistake”. Very lame…Engadget is quickly losing street cred in the industry.

By: David Lee

David Lee — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:16:34 +0000

Lets give Jason some credit here. I really liked what he has done with webblog (endgadget) where I read about products before the company making announcemnet. He's putting his name and reputation on the online so it'll be interesting to see what happened.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:05:20 +0000

OK -- I have a bit of an agenda here. I work for the current Netscape (not the new one) and I have watched what AOL has done over the past few years to this brand. It's kind of sickening. Has Netscape lost unique visitors? Yes! But where did they go? To AOl, that's where. The dirty little secret here is that AOL has been siphoning off unique visitors to their products, resetting users home pages from Netscape to AOL.com when they download AIM. Forcing Netscape to carry AOL channels (Music, Moves, TV, etc.) rather than thier own content and basically doing a ton to undermine the brand integrity. It's all for the sake of pumping up the AOL.com numbers at any expense. God forbid they face the music that people won't visit their sites unless you force feed them.

NOTE TO AOL: Listen to what the users want and give it to them and then give them more. Your programming expertise means nothing unless it's based on what folks want!

Let's be clear, I think Jason Calacanis is a very smart guy but then again so was Hannibal Lechter (or at least he was in the book). This pale copy of DIGG that he's launching makes me kinda sick. He's an egomaniac that brown noses the right execs so he can get his way. I know I have an attitude about him but dismantling something you've worked on for years will kinda make you grumpy. But what he's doing is not a whole lot worse than where AOL was taking the brand. Netscape has been a fun ride. I'm just sorry to see it end this way.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 10:41:08 +0000

Yes, Netscape has truly gone down the tubes. Maybe it should be rebranded to “Netscrap” or “Netscrape.” I think their demise began when AOL bought them up…

By: Dave Lanfern

Dave Lanfern — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:41:57 +0000

Maybe the 15million users are actually the people who use the Netscape ISP/dial-up service?

By: Jeanie

Jeanie — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:58:59 +0000

Who goes to Netscape anyways? And how did they have 15 million users last year?

The site doesn't do anything for me and I hardly get it. Looks like teenie bopper crap with links to uninformative sites, mostly blogs.

By: Jonthan Pepper

Jonthan Pepper — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:51:49 +0000

Great article. I completely agree with you. When I was in college I worked for the computer labs at the library. We sold Internet connection software (Mosaic, PPP, etc) to students for about $3 per floppy. I'd get people coming in all the time wanting to get the Internet on a floppy...haha!

Anyways, Netscape died a horrible death thanks to MS. If Netscape tries to re-invent itself as a clone of another site, that seems like an act of desperation. I checked out the beta netscape site yesterday and today, and at first glance it looks like it's all the same articles too.

I can't believe Jason said he was going to be the next AOL CEO...