Hi everyone. I’ve decided to try out a new browser. Since Netscape Navigator is going out of business, I need to move off or face EOL on support. I’m running Mac OS 10.3.9, so I’m not going to try out Internet Explorer. Firefox 2.0.0.x has always been slow and heavy to me, so I’m a [...]

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Marc Andreeson, co-founder of Netscape, has a great series of posts on startups on his blog: http://blog.pmarca.com
The latest post deals with hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives at your startup.
And Marc is yet another in a growing number of prolific figures who have blogs that have turned off their comments. Is this just a case [...]

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This is a good talk Andrew Keen gives at Google (not sure if its at the Googleplex). He discusses his book, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture. I heard that he had criticism of where I work, but he didn’t mention it during the talk. I might have to [...]

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As some readers know, I have been working most of my waking hours over the past year here. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the initial Beta launch of the social news site, and I contributed to the official Happy Birthday post here. However, official language tends to leave out some of the fun, mostly [...]

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Wow. I’m on the Netscape Wikipedia listing. This after watching Code Rush, a documentary about the 1998 open sourcing of Netscape Communicator 5.0 and later sale of Netscape to AOL. It’s been a Netscape day for me. Well, I am the director of the group, so I guess it makes sense, but its all still [...]

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Hi there. I have updated the Netscape Submit Wordpress plugin again :). This time, I’ve added support for text and mini vote syndication styles, based on existing Netscape APIs. I have also updated the admin menu to make it easier to tell which style is which:

The file is available here.
Instructions:
1. Download the Netscape Submit Wordpress [...]

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I have updated the Netscape Submit plugin, to allow for adding summary and tags, and fixing a bug with URLs that already existed on Netscape.com. The mechanics look good, but I think there should be more icon choices before considering this really done.
It’s here, though.
Instructions (again, for those unfamiliar with WP plugins):
1. Download the Netscape [...]

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Hi. This is the first release of the Netscape Submit Wordpress plugin. It attaches a Netscape vote syndication widget at the end of each post. It is configurable to the extent of allowing Small vs. Medium syndication styles. It allows for all Netscape syndication widgets to be rendered via iframes, so that the addition of [...]

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