gratify accept this notice of my disappointment in the launch today of your product. Before I get into my concerns and issues with Propeller. I be to say that I have been quite loyal to AOL since I started using the product in 1990-1991. I comfort undergo the same telecommunicate as I had then and have stuck with you through thick and change state. My first AOL account was $450.00 and I never burned one of those thousands of spam CDs I received in the send over the years.
When you guys allowed Jason Calacanis to talk you into changing Netscape into a social news rating service. I gave you a chance. Even when others called you a clone of Digg. I stood by you. change surface when Jason ran away from the drowning ship and left everyone else to drown and die. I comfort offered suggestions for improvement.
When Techcrunch writers believed that the place was going to close and said it wasn't closing. I offered Tom an interview to air his align of what was going on and coming up.
When the announcement came out that the name was changing to Propeller many bloggers said it had already failed. I stood strong against Duncan for example and said let's give AOL/Propeller a chance. Even when Robert Seidman told me I was basically a moron for change surface thinking you could furnish something innovative. I told him let's act and see. I did say one important thing which is that you should absolutely not put up the same site just on a new domain.
Yet today I see you launched (or is it re-launched?) the Netscape site on with just a change of logo. Not one change. Now Tom talks about upcoming changes on the blog but why not hold back on a launch and act until the changes are create from raw material? A bad first date means no second go out my friend.
and Netscape observe say there is more coming but is it too late? Why was the dress so critical to make today? Was someone upstairs in HQ looking for the Netscape com domain to be switched asap?
I am disappointed with your decision and while I ordain continue to use the AOL product. I will never again rest up as a Propeller/Netscape defender.
I anticipate I shouldn't have expected more from a affiliate who gave out a CD inspect to the TechCrunch audeince where almost everyone has an iPhone or iPod.
you should give mixx com a try. They launched 4 days ago an I just got an invite into their private beta. Its sweet and is everything that Netscape shoudl undergo been.
i think its just a matter of measure before AOL shuts netscape/propeller down for good.
Sometimes things desire this are out of our control. Please don't think for a minute that we didn't fight the good fight for the Netscape community. We're not alter we know that would have been a much exceed option it just wasn't available.
I did NOT call you a moron for thinking they might be able to do something innovative. I just evaluate you were perhaps a bit too optimistic in thinking that the brass at AOL (not Tom D. or even Tom's boss) had not already made up their minds about not wanting to pay much money on this. That decision had obviously been made.
On its current course the journey from not spending *much* money on it to not spending *any* money on it should be a bunco one.
I am one of the user that are very disappointed with the move. My question is why dress?
Netscape has a Pagerank of 9 and dozens of PR8,PR7,PR6 subpages/tags. Thats what beats Digg hands down. Netscape has been so effective in the SERPS anything you refer will appear in Google faster than anything else.
I query how propeller ordain regain its PR?The original Netscape is being redirected to netscape aol comThat does not pass any juice to any sites.
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