Comments on: Jason Calacanis has left the building http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jason Calacanis Has Left AOL http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/comment-page-1/#comment-87667 Jason Calacanis Has Left AOL Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:25:19 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/#comment-87667 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Yes, ladies and gentlemen - the Jason Calacanis era at AOL appears to be over. Although the only response from the great man himself has been a terse "no comment," the writing is on the wall. The rumours first started to fly after the news that AOL exec Jon Miller, whom Calacanis has described as a "mentor," departed the Time Warner soul-sucking vortex unit. Personal prickliness aside, I think Jason has been doing his best to remake Netscape into something substantial, although I still don't know whether bribing paying the top posters at Digg and Reddit to work for him was really the best strategy. But hey - it got lots of press, both real and blogospheric, and that's something. That said, it was essentially a copycat approach, and my sense is that it hasn't really been going all that well traffic-wise. Muhammad Saleem, a top Digger and Netscape poster, has some thoughts, and so does my friend Tony Hung. Nick Denton, who only recently seized the helm at the listing Valleywag, tastefully posts his thoughts about his old blogging nemesis under the category "obituary." Nice. I for one will be interested to see what Jason comes up with next. I think he should get some VC money together and convince Mike Arrington and Om Malik to set up shop together as a blog/advertising network, and maybe roll some other sites in there too - like Techdirt for example. Slam dunk, Jason. Call me. Comments Tag: AOL, Jason Calacanis Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark WebProNews: View All Articles by Mathew Ingram Receive Our Daily Email of Breaking eBusiness News About the Author: Mathew Ingram [note only one "t" in Mathew] is a technology writer and blogger for the Globe and Mail, a national newspaper based in Toronto, and also writes about the Web and media at www.mathewingram.com/work and www.mathewingram.com/media. WebProNews RSS Feed More Blog Talk Articles Contact WebProNews [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Yes, ladies and gentlemen – the Jason Calacanis era at AOL appears to be over. Although the only response from the great man himself has been a terse “no comment,” the writing is on the wall. The rumours first started to fly after the news that AOL exec Jon Miller, whom Calacanis has described as a “mentor,” departed the Time Warner soul-sucking vortex unit. Personal prickliness aside, I think Jason has been doing his best to remake Netscape into something substantial, although I still don’t know whether bribing paying the top posters at Digg and Reddit to work for him was really the best strategy. But hey – it got lots of press, both real and blogospheric, and that’s something. That said, it was essentially a copycat approach, and my sense is that it hasn’t really been going all that well traffic-wise. Muhammad Saleem, a top Digger and Netscape poster, has some thoughts, and so does my friend Tony Hung. Nick Denton, who only recently seized the helm at the listing Valleywag, tastefully posts his thoughts about his old blogging nemesis under the category “obituary.” Nice. I for one will be interested to see what Jason comes up with next. I think he should get some VC money together and convince Mike Arrington and Om Malik to set up shop together as a blog/advertising network, and maybe roll some other sites in there too – like Techdirt for example. Slam dunk, Jason. Call me. Comments Tag: AOL, Jason Calacanis Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark WebProNews: View All Articles by Mathew Ingram Receive Our Daily Email of Breaking eBusiness News About the Author: Mathew Ingram [note only one "t" in Mathew] is a technology writer and blogger for the Globe and Mail, a national newspaper based in Toronto, and also writes about the Web and media at http://www.mathewingram.com/work and http://www.mathewingram.com/media. WebProNews RSS Feed More Blog Talk Articles Contact WebProNews [...]

]]> By: Jason Calacanis escapes from AOHell » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/comment-page-1/#comment-87575 Jason Calacanis escapes from AOHell » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:04:40 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/#comment-87575 [...] Jason Calacanis has left the building [...] [...] Jason Calacanis has left the building [...]

]]> By: Netscape loses blog maven Calacanis | News.blog | CNET News.com http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/comment-page-1/#comment-87537 Netscape loses blog maven Calacanis | News.blog | CNET News.com Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:45:09 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/#comment-87537 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Blog community response: "While the wild speculation can begin about who is going to be taking the helm of Netscape (will it be an existing Navigator?!), if Netscape continues in the form its in, you can bet it has lost a personality that keeps Netscape in the news, and people interested in the company. The alternative, of course, is that AOL, Netscape's parent company, shutters Netscape as it is - since it doesn't have the same evangelists within the company. No more paid navigators, no more social bookmarking, no more 'mature' rival to Digg and Reddit." --Deep Jive Interests "Personal prickliness aside, I think Jason has been doing his best to remake Netscape into something substantial, although I still don't know whether paying the top posters at Digg and Reddit to work for him was really the best strategy. But hey - it got lots of press, both real and blogospheric, and that's something." --Matthew Wingram "It really should come as no surprise Calacanis is moving on because it was only a question of when, not if, given he's an wealthy entrepreneur who is working for a large corporation - and everyone knows entrepreneurs don't thrive in large, bureaucratic corporations, right? So what does Calacanis do next? Well, clearly he believes in the online advertising model given his excitement about the IAB numbers earlier this week. The question is whether his severance agreement with AOL precludes him from working for a user-generated company or, for that matter, an online company that generates revenue from advertising." --Mark Evans [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Blog community response: “While the wild speculation can begin about who is going to be taking the helm of Netscape (will it be an existing Navigator?!), if Netscape continues in the form its in, you can bet it has lost a personality that keeps Netscape in the news, and people interested in the company. The alternative, of course, is that AOL, Netscape’s parent company, shutters Netscape as it is – since it doesn’t have the same evangelists within the company. No more paid navigators, no more social bookmarking, no more ‘mature’ rival to Digg and Reddit.” –Deep Jive Interests “Personal prickliness aside, I think Jason has been doing his best to remake Netscape into something substantial, although I still don’t know whether paying the top posters at Digg and Reddit to work for him was really the best strategy. But hey – it got lots of press, both real and blogospheric, and that’s something.” –Matthew Wingram “It really should come as no surprise Calacanis is moving on because it was only a question of when, not if, given he’s an wealthy entrepreneur who is working for a large corporation – and everyone knows entrepreneurs don’t thrive in large, bureaucratic corporations, right? So what does Calacanis do next? Well, clearly he believes in the online advertising model given his excitement about the IAB numbers earlier this week. The question is whether his severance agreement with AOL precludes him from working for a user-generated company or, for that matter, an online company that generates revenue from advertising.” –Mark Evans [...]

]]> By: robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » The Unsurprising Departure of Jason Calacanis http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/comment-page-1/#comment-87466 robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » The Unsurprising Departure of Jason Calacanis Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:04:24 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/#comment-87466 [...] We’ve seen this movie before, of course - just about everywhere. It reads to me like just another day at ABC BigCorp. I won’t stray too far into a discussion of the generally pathological behaviour of otherwise ordinarily competitive individuals when they’re immersed in large corporate cultures, but for now suffice it to say that it must come as no surprise that a guy as entrepreneurial as Calacanis has no interest in playing in that particular sandbox. (Mathew suggests that Netscape might not have been going that well, and I suppose, that this could have hastened Calacanis’ exit, but I’m not so sure - doesn’t it still take more than just a few months to establish global domination, or has YouTube rewritten that rule, too?) [...] [...] We’ve seen this movie before, of course – just about everywhere. It reads to me like just another day at ABC BigCorp. I won’t stray too far into a discussion of the generally pathological behaviour of otherwise ordinarily competitive individuals when they’re immersed in large corporate cultures, but for now suffice it to say that it must come as no surprise that a guy as entrepreneurial as Calacanis has no interest in playing in that particular sandbox. (Mathew suggests that Netscape might not have been going that well, and I suppose, that this could have hastened Calacanis’ exit, but I’m not so sure – doesn’t it still take more than just a few months to establish global domination, or has YouTube rewritten that rule, too?) [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/comment-page-1/#comment-87326 Tony Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:45:15 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/11/16/jason-calacanis-has-left-the-building/#comment-87326 UPDATE: Jason Calacanis has admitted on his blog that he is in fact leaving Netscape. calacanis.com -- and that the NYT had the right of it. If you will excuse me, its time for me to eat some crow ;) UPDATE: Jason Calacanis has admitted on his blog that he is in fact leaving Netscape.
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– and that the NYT had the right of it.

If you will excuse me, its time for me to eat some crow ;)

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