Tom Drapeau did a post on AOL dropping the Netscape browser on the Netscape (not Propeller?) blog. One of my ComicMix partners sent me a note lamenting the death of Netscape which read:
"Another notch on Microsoft's belt..."
I haven't thought of this as an IE vs. Netscape thing for years. My reply:
"This one was on AOL's belt. Or, more accurately, what's left of AOL's belt. There have been a lot of notches in that thing..."
I made reference to AOL's reputation as the place "where brands go to die" in my April Fool's post about leaving AOL, which was followed by the real one two months later.
To be fair, Weblogs, Inc. survived the recent AOL cutbacks because it's a solid, profitable business and Blogsmith is thriving as a platform within AOL. It would be great to see AOL shed their reputation for killing brands they acquire.
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Dossy Shiobara 233 days ago
The only way they'll shed that reputation is by not doing it any more.
It usually takes AOL 3-4 years to kill a brand. WIN/Blogsmith still has ... another 2 years. Sometime early 2010, I'm guessing.
Finanziamenti 233 days ago
Well is really sad for netscape history and brand. It was a great browser and a piece of web's story.
I think that this browser will be remembered for a real long time by everyone who discovered the net at the beginning of it.
I don't agree with Dossy ... this case was different too strong and well done both IE form version 7 and firefox ... and too much money in first case... too people working on Mozilla for free in second one.. Was really difficult save it!!
Anycase .. Happy 2008 to all
jason 233 days ago
hey, I fought the good fight for a long time... if they had kept the strategy going they would own a thriving social news site challenged only by digg. With digg going for $200-300M possibly that would be a fairly cool thing to own.
Ahh.... well. Time to move on.
RCRDLBL, Mahalo, and CrowdFusion FTW!!!