Tag Archives: Netscape

AOL To Acquire Socialthing

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Just saw that Socialthing is in the process of being acquired by AOL.

While this is certainly good news for Socialthing developers, I hope it doesn’t come back to bite them in the ass. AOL after all is pretty much known for fraking up everything they buy. Look what happened to WinAmp, ICQ, and Netscape.

Now the question is, what will happen to AOL? Time Warner has been looking to shed itself of that turd ever since it (for some reason) decided to buy it up… Will we see AOL finally picked up by Yahoo? With SocialThing, Bebo, Sphere, Xdrive, and of course the AIM/ICQ messaging networks it could really turn Yahoo around.

Netscap Flaw Padded Firefox Stats

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I saw this link to this article over at Opera Watch, even though Daniel didn’t comment on it.

Apparently a flaw in Netscape 8 caused it to mis-report itself as Mozilla Firefox. This in turned caused the stats for Netscape to fall, and the stats for Firefox to increase.

Thats ok… Opera reports itself as IE by default. So we have kind of the same situation there. Opera was considering a change to the default reporting, and hopefully we’ll see that in the next major release. ;)