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Digg Clone Failure leads Calcanis to quit Netscape

November 20, 2006 by Your Name in Uncategorized

Jason Calacanis said, last week, that he was leaving AOL because Jonathan Miller, AOL's ousted CEO, was one of the only business mentors he'd ever had. But the true answer may be in the numbers, which are brutal: In two months after launching his Digg clone, traffic to the Netscape home page dropped a staggering 70%.

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November 20, 2006 /Your Name
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