Calacanis's plans for AOL: The "true hotness"
In what's probably a strategic leak from AOL, an employee reported on Jason Calacanis's Dulles and NYC office hours (held last Friday). Jason Calacanis's plans to revive the bloated corpse that is Netscape.com were passed to Valleywag, in vague and glowing terms. So to offset my constant petty mockery of the Weblogs, Inc. founder and AOL corporate blogger, here are the deets from his meetings in Dulles and New York:
- Five people demoed products. The tipster wouldn't name the people or projects.
- "At the core," Jason's Netscape revamp will run "the next level of social bookmarking" — rumored to be a mainstream version of tech bookmark site Digg.
- Weblogs, Inc. blogger C. K. Sample III is Jason's right-hand man for the project.
- The tipster praised "this whole extra layer to it that will be the true hotness." 1) The True Hotness would make a great band name. 2) Any guesses what this "extra layer" will be?
- At one meeting, Jason gently spanked a guy who begged for a linkfarm powered by Weblogs, Inc. "Sorry, we're going to be classy," was Jason's reported tone. (The massive linklists on the right and bottom of any Weblogs, Inc. blog don't count.)
That should tide AOL fans — all both of 'em — over 'til Jason blogs it all.
