Finally, The Internet As Intended.

Over at Read/WriteWeb Richard MacManus has some skinny on old-school Netscape user’s reactions to the just-out-of-beta redesign of Netscape.com. Apparently, based on comments left on Richard’s blog, some of the mainstream Netscape user crowd are not too thrilled with the changes.

you know damn well this kids running the show don’t give a crap about what the public wants.

Jason Calacanis, who came to AOL via their acquisition of Weblogs, is spearheading Netscape’s shift from a web 1.0 portal into a 2.0 collective-intelligence aggregator.

 

We should all be watching to see how eagerly Netscape’s mainstream userbase takes to the web2.0 principles at work in the new netscape.com. It’s a great litmus-test of the principles that are driving the big re-interest in the web.