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Jason Calacanis has left the building

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

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 Mi ... Continue reading »

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  • Muhammad Saleem

    2 years ago

    Hey Matt,

    I think you are a little unfair when you say 'bribing' the top posters. My bias (for getting paid) aside, I think this statement from Jason explains it all:

    "If we're (DIGG, Delicious, Flickr, Reddit, MySpace, Netscape, etc) are going to make businesses out of this space we should share the wealth."
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    You are right, Muhammad, it is a little unfair -- and I used that word knowing that it would get a reaction. I think there is still a lot of debate about whether paying submitters of sites to Digg or Netscape is a valid business strategy, or whether it was merely an attenton-grabbing gesture on Jason's part and a way of trying to suck some of the momentum away from Digg.
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  • howardlindzon

    2 years ago

    Press. Whats that worth :) . Seriously though. No meat, he was baaaad.
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    Traffic doesn't look too hot either: http://www.alexaholic.com/netscape.com+digg.com
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  • Tony

    2 years ago

    Yeah, I'm not convinced the NYT got the scoop there -- Calacanis isn't yet, apparently, confirming anything. Anyone IM's him gets the same response. There's nothing on his blog either.

    While its all but certain what will happen, I'm not sure where the evidence is to be announcing it as fact.
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  • Tony

    2 years ago

    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 ;)
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